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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. searchxml vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#362	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Spotify

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

informationpartners gmbh

Transwarp

Initial release

2014

2010

2015

Current release

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

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.

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

yes

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