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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Ingres vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Ingres vs. OpenSearch

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBWell established RDBMSA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.50
Rank#99  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score3.28
Rank#78  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score17.19
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Search engines
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.actian.com/­ingresopensearch.org/­docs/­latest
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Actian CorporationThe OpenSearch Software Foundation
Initial release20101974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2021
Current release12.0, July 20242.19, February 2025
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
Implementation languageErlangCJava
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyes
Triggersyesyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres Replicatoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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