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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. JaguarDB vs. Sphinx

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA multi-model DBMS and application serverPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.73
Rank#108  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.09
Rank#356  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.jaguardb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.intersystems.comwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014InterSystemsDataJaguar, Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2010199720152001
Current release2018.1.4, May 20203.3 July 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and rolesrights management via user accountsno

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