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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Memgraph vs. RDFox vs. RethinkDB vs. TiDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmemgraph.comwww.oxfordsemantic.techrethinkdb.compingcap.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmemgraph.com/­docsdocs.oxfordsemantic.techrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Memgraph LtdOxford Semantic TechnologiesThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017PingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20102017201720092016
Current release6.0, Septermber 20222.4.1, August 20208.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC and C++C++C++Go, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
Java
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
TriggersyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding inforange basedhorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using RAFTreplication via a shared file systemSource-replica replicationUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsnoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infowith snapshot isolationACIDAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers, roles and permissionsRoles, resources, and access typesyes infousers and table-level permissionsFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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IBM CloudantMemgraphRDFoxRethinkDBTiDB
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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