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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. mSQL vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. mSQL vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudanthughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlsphinxsearch.comterminusdb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantsphinxsearch.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Hughes TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.DataChemist Ltd.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20101994200120181998
Current release4.4, October 20213.5.1, February 202311.0.0, January 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangCC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoyesPL/SQL
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenoneJournaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingnoyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes infoin-memory journalingyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenonoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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