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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RDFox vs. TigerGraph vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RDFox vs. TigerGraph vs. TimesTen

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.tigergraph.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.oxfordsemantic.techdocs.tigergraph.comdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MicrosoftOxford Semantic TechnologiesOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20102015201720171998
Current releaseV16.0, Septermber 202211 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 SQLnononoSQL-like query language (GSQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
Java
C++
Java
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyesPL/SQL
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicereplication via a shared file systemMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousing Azure authenticationRoles, resources, and access typesRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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