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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. jBASE vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. jBASE vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Multivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#113  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#372  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
#14  Vector DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#151  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score11.20
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score125.38
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)IBMSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20102015199120002014
Current release3.3 July 20235.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux infoincluded in appliancehosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionalyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyesyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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