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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. Kuzu vs. Linter

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. Kuzu vs. Linter

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonKuzu  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsAn embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalabilityRDBMS for high security requirements
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#402  Overall
#41  Graph DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.kinetica.comkuzudb.comlinter.ru
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.kinetica.comdocs.kuzudb.com
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Kineticarelex.ru
Initial release2010201220221990
Current release7.1, August 20210.4.2, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangC, C++C++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-lessAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
Cypher Query Language
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsnoyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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