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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeSearch engineWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.memcached.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikilearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoftAlex KashirinParadigma Software
Initial release20102003201520201999
Current release1.6.25, March 2024V10.5, April 20215.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangCC++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocolRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnononoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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