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DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. LMDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. LMDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­datastorewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clswww.lmdb.tech/­docdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperGoogleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014InterSystemsSymas
Initial release20082010201820112017
Current release2023.3, June 20230.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangCC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, details herenoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (GQL)noyesnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresusing Google App EngineView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesnoyes
TriggersCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using PaxosMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per databaseyesnoRole-based access control
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