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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Infobright vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

RDF store

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Score	2.53
Rank	#103	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#204	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.87
Rank	#202	Overall
	#7	RDF stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2010

2005

2004

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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