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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb vs. OrigoDB vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb vs. OrigoDB vs. SingleStore

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  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 simplicityA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#54  Document stores
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.02
Rank#74  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/origodb.comwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedorigodb.com/­docsdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Circonus LLC.Robert Friberg et alSingleStore Inc.
Initial release201020172009 infounder the name LiveDB2013
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20188.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC and C++C#C++, Go
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
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
.NetBash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in Luayesyes
Triggersyesnoyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoRole based authorizationFine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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