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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Document store

Vector DBMS

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Score	2.53
Rank	#103	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#383	Overall
	#18	Vector DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2010

2023

Current release

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or 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
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

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

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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