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DBMS > Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Riak KV

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceOracles in-memory data grid solutionDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Key-value storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score27.71
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantlearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MicrosoftOracleOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20142010201420072009
Current release14.1, August 20233.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaErlang
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoJSON typesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultnorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIDocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
.Net
C++
Java
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJavaScriptnoErlang
TriggersnoyesJavaScriptyes infoLive Eventsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, with selectable consistency levelselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyeswith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*noyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationyes, using Riak Security

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