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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Interbase vs. JanusGraph

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	3.68
Rank	#97	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	6.06
Rank	#69	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	2.39
Rank	#133	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

janusgraph.org

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.janusgraph.org

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Embarcadero

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Initial release

2010

1984

2017

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Interbase Change Views

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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