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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.janusgraph.org

nsdb.io/Architecture

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2010

2017

2017

2012

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Java, Scala

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

no

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

no

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

no

no

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Java
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

no

no

Triggers

yes

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

Relationships in graphs

no

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

no

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

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

Using Apache Lucene

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

no

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