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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. MySQL vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Widely used open source RDBMS

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

memgraph.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.mysql.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

memgraph.com/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Social network pages

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2010

2017

2012

1995

2014

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

with snapshot isolation

optimistic locking

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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