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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.GoogleMicrosoft
Initial release2010201520142015
Current release3.3 July 20232.1.12, February 2017V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safarihosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonono
TriggersyesnoUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsnoyes infousing Azure authentication

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