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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Riak KV vs. Stardog vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	1.93
Rank	#121	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.stardog.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.stardog.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Stardog-Union

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2010

2009

2010

2018

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

7.3.0, May 2020

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

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

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

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

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Erlang

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

via event handlers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

Journaling Streams

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 HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

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

in-memory journaling

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

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users and roles

Role-based access control

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