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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. LokiJS vs. MySQL vs. OpenSearch

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSWidely used open source RDBMSA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APISearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#14  Vector DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1061.34
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score16.03
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.mysql.comgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdev.mysql.com/­docopensearch.org/­docs/­latest
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.Oracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunAmazon Web Services
Initial release20102015201419952021
Current release3.3 July 20238.4.0, April 20242.5.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaScriptC and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoView functions in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntaxyes
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate 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 integritynononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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IBM CloudantJaguarDBLokiJSMySQLOpenSearch
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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