DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Immudb vs. Memgraph vs. Oracle vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Immudb vs. Memgraph vs. Oracle vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Widely used RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

memgraph.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.immudb.io

memgraph.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

help.sap.com/hana

Social network pages

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Codenotary

Memgraph Ltd

Oracle

SAP

Initial release

2010

2020

2017

1980

2010

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

23c, September 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

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 and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like syntax

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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