DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Manticore Search vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Manticore Search vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Search engine

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Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores
	#16	Vector DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#361	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

manticoresearch.com

www.sqlite.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

Manticore Software

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transwarp

Initial release

2010

2015

2017

2000

Current release

3.3 July 2023

6.0, February 2023

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

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

rights management via user accounts

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