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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Riak KV

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#14  Vector DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.exasol.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperExasolSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20002014201020152009
Current release3.3 July 20233.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoErlang
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsyes, using Riak Security

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