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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. MarkLogic vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.marklogic.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.marklogic.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

IBM

MarkLogic Corp.

SAP

Initial release

2010

2014

2001

2010

Current release

11.0, December 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

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.

yes

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

yes

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