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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb vs. LevelDB vs. RDF4J vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb vs. LevelDB vs. RDF4J vs. Rockset

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRDF storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­google/­leveldbrdf4j.orgrockset.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Circonus LLC.GoogleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Rockset
Initial release20102017201120042019
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20181.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageErlangC and C++C++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyesdynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Java
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in Luanoyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonenoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenononoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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