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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. OrigoDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory JavaScript DBMSOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.marklogic.comorigodb.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.marklogic.comorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MarkLogic Corp.Robert Friberg et al
Initial release2010201420012009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release11.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaScriptC++C#
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.nonoyesno infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL92no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript APIJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesyesyesyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes, with Range Indexesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsRole based authorization

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