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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Stardog

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Name	IBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Stardog  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database model	Document store	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Graph DBMS RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 2.75 Rank #104   Overall #19   Document stores	Score 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS		Score 2.07 Rank #122   Overall #11   Graph DBMS #6   RDF stores
Website	www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant	google.github.io/­lovefield	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.stardog.com
Technical documentation	cloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md		docs.stardog.com
Developer	IBM, Apache Software Foundation IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014	Google	Sybase, SAP	Stardog-Union
Initial release	2010	2014	1993	2010
Current release		2.1.12, February 2017		7.3.0, May 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	commercial 60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Erlang	JavaScript		Java
Server operating systems	hosted	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	Linux Windows	Linux macOS Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes	schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	yes	yes	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.	no	no	no	no Import/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL Support of SQL	no	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern	yes	Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methods	RESTful HTTP/JSON API		.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	GraphQL query language HTTP API Jena RDF API OWL RDF4J API Sesame REST HTTP Protocol SNARL SPARQL Spring Data Stardog Studio TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages	C# Java JavaScript Objective-C PHP Ruby	JavaScript	Delphi Perl PHP	.Net Clojure Groovy Java JavaScript Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript	no	yes	user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggers	yes	Using read-only observers	yes	yes via event handlers
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	none	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Multi-source replication Source-replica replication	none	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Eventual Consistency		Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	yes	yes relationships in graphs
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no atomic operations within a document possible	ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes Optimistic locking	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes using MemoryDB	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes
User concepts Access control	Access rights for users can be defined per database	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Access rights for users and roles
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