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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. InfinityDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Splunk

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantboilerbay.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Boiler Bay Inc.OracleSplunk Inc.
Initial release2010200220112003
Current release4.024.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysoptionalyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnowith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)no infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infooff heap cacheno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and roles

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