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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. JaguarDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

blueflood.io

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.jaguardb.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Rackspace

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

IBM

DataJaguar, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2013

2010

2014

2015

2018

Current release

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

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