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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 vs. JaguarDB vs. OpenTSDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.jaguardb.comopentsdb.net
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2www.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBMDataJaguar, Inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release200520101983 infohost version20152011
Current release3.3.3, December 202312.1, October 20163.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangErlangC and C++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJava
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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 indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesnono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Multi-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsno

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