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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. OrigoDB vs. RDFox

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

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

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

origodb.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

origodb.com/docs

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Robert Friberg et al

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2010

2009

under the name LiveDB

2017

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

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 in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

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 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

Role based authorization

Roles, resources, and access types

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