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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. Titan

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlorigodb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdorigodb.com/­docsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014GoogleHughes TechnologiesRobert Friberg et alAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2010201419942009 infounder the name LiveDB2012
Current release2.1.12, February 20174.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaScriptCC#Java
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.NetClojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoyesyes
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersnoyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnodepending on modelyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDBnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenonoRole based authorizationUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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