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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. LMDB vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. LMDB vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake vs. Typesense

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#210  Overall
#14  Search engines
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.snowflake.comtypesense.org
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.lmdb.tech/­docdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmltypesense.org/­docs
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SymasIBMSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20102011200020142015
Current release0.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageErlangCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux infoincluded in appliancehostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-free infopre-defined schema optional
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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