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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Sequoiadb vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

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Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	2.96
Rank	#103	Overall
	#18	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#260	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	2.05
Rank	#129	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.sequoiadb.com

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.stardog.com

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Oracle

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2010

2011

2013

2010

Current release

23.3, December 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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