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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RethinkDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

FatCloud

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Percona

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2012

2010

2015

2009

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles

yes

users and table-level permissions

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