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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. NuoDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Search engine

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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

doc.nuodb.com

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

2010

2014

2013

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a document possible

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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