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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield vs. Speedb

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield vs. Speedb

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#315  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.speedb.io
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014GoogleSpeedb
Initial release201020142020
Current release2.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
TriggersyesUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenono
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IBM CloudantLovefieldSpeedb
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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