DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	105.40
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	29.85
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

manticoresearch.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

manual.manticoresearch.com

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Manticore Software

Microsoft

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2010

2017

1992

2014

2012

Current release

6.0, February 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

JSON types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a document possible

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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