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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. OrientDB vs. RRDtool vs. Solr

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantorientdb.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPTobias OetikerApache Software Foundation
Initial release2010201019992006
Current release3.2.29, March 20241.8.0, 20229.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language, no joinsnoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJava, JavascriptnoJava plugins
TriggersyesHooksnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationship in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurablenoyes

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