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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Linter vs. Speedb vs. TerminusDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBRDBMS for high security requirementsAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantlinter.ruwww.speedb.ioterminusdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014relex.ruSpeedbDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2010199020202018
Current release11.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC and C++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLnoyes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access control
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IBM CloudantLinterSpeedbTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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