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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. JaguarDB vs. MarkLogic vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. JaguarDB vs. MarkLogic vs. RethinkDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBCloud-based data warehousing servicePerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.jaguardb.comwww.marklogic.comrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.marklogic.comrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBMDataJaguar, Inc.MarkLogic Corp.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20102014201520012009
Current release3.3 July 202311.0, December 20222.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes infoSQL92no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptPL/SQL, SQL PLnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScript
TriggersyesyesnoyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
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.noyesnoyes, with Range Indexesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsyes infousers and table-level permissions

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