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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Immudb vs. JanusGraph vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Immudb vs. JanusGraph vs. Lovefield

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.31
Rank#295  Overall
#42  Key-value stores
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
janusgraph.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.immudb.iodocs.janusgraph.orggithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014CodenotaryLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusGoogle
Initial release2010202020172014
Current release1.2.3, April 20220.6.3, February 20232.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangGoJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like syntaxnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyesno
TriggersyesnoyesUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverno

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