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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. mSQL vs. OpenQM vs. OrigoDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

origodb.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

origodb.com/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Hughes Technologies

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Robert Friberg et al

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2010

1994

1993

2009

under the name LiveDB

2018

Current release

4.4, October 2021

3.4-12

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role based authorization

Role-based access control

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