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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. OrigoDB vs. Pinecone vs. TerarkDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantorigodb.comwww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantorigodb.com/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Robert Friberg et alPinecone Systems, IncByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20102009 infounder the name LiveDB20192016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageErlangC#C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoUser defined using .NET types and collectionsString, Number, Booleanno
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 infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.NetPythonC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersyesyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based authorizationno

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