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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. searchxml vs. Solr vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Search engine

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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.searchxml.net/category/products

solr.apache.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

solr.apache.org/resources.html

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

informationpartners gmbh

Apache Software Foundation

Transwarp

Initial release

2010

2015

2006

Current release

1.0

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

on the application server

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

multiple readers, single writer

optimistic locking

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.

yes

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

yes

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