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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Document store

RDF store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

rdf4j.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

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Initial release

2010

2004

2015

Current release

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

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

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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