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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. NuoDB vs. TempoIQ vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

tempoiq.com (offline)

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2010

2013

2012

2009

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

simple authentication-based access control

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