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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. KairosDB vs. MonetDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. KairosDB vs. MonetDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A relational database management system that stores data in columnsA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.60
Rank#238  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#345  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.monetdb.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantkairosdb.github.iowww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MonetDB BV
Initial release2010201320042009
Current release1.2.2, November 2018Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaCJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
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 lockingyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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