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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Ignite vs. Rockset vs. Transbase vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Ignite vs. Rockset vs. Transbase vs. XTDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantignite.apache.orgrockset.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.rockset.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationRocksetTransaction Software GmbHJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20102015201919872019
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.6Transbase 8.3, 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangC++, Java, .NetC++C and C++Clojure
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesdynamic typingyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.noyesno infoingestion from XML files supportednono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyesno
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)noyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes (replicated cache)yesSource-replica replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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