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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. MarkLogic vs. Memcached vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. MarkLogic vs. Memcached vs. SwayDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Key-value storeKey-value store
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
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comwww.marklogic.comwww.memcached.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.marklogic.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.MarkLogic Corp.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSimer Plaha
Initial release20102015200120032018
Current release3.3 July 202311.0, December 20221.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++CScala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnono
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes infoSQL92nono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes, with Range Indexesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno

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