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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

www.featurebase.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2017

2010

2015

Current release

2022, May 2022

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

atomic operations within a document possible

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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