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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OushuDB vs. searchxml

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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 CouchDBA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.oushu.com/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Oushuinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release201420102015
Current release4.0.1, August 20201.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyes infoon the application server
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseKerberos, SSL and role based accessDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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