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DBMS > HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory JavaScript DBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument storeDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttechfort.github.io/­LokiJSlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperBaiduIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Microsoft
Initial release2018201020142015
Current release0.9V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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 infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparkyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoyes infousing Azure authentication

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