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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Riak TS vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

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

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2010

2015

2017

Current release

3.0.0, September 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
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Relationships in graphs

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 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

Role-based access control

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