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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Rockset vs. Sphinx vs. TDengine vs. TinkerGraph

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTime Series DBMS and big data platformA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeSearch engineTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantrockset.comsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
tinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.rockset.comsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014RocksetSphinx Technologies Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20102019200120192009
Current release3.5.1, February 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C++CJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenodynamic typingnoyesyes
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 infoingestion from XML files supportednono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP RESTProprietary protocolJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnononono
Triggersyesnonoyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenoyesno
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IBM CloudantRocksetSphinxTDengineTinkerGraph
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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