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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. MonetDB vs. OushuDB vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. MonetDB vs. OushuDB vs. SQL.JS

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.monetdb.orgwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBsql.js.org
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.oushu.com/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MonetDB BVOushuAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release201020042012
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20234.0.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangCJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Ryesno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKerberos, SSL and role based accessno

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