DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. PouchDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. PouchDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

pouchdb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Google

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2008

2010

2015

2012

2014

Current release

3.3 July 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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