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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. searchxml vs. YottaDB

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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 fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.searchxml.net/category/products

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

informationpartners gmbh

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2010

2015

2001

Current release

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

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

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

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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