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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. MarkLogic vs. RethinkDB vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.marklogic.com

rethinkdb.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.marklogic.com

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.teradata.com

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

MarkLogic Corp.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Teradata

Initial release

2010

2001

2009

1984

Current release

11.0, December 2022

2.4.1, August 2020

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

yes

users and table-level permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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