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DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Riak KV vs. SQL.JS vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Riak KV vs. SQL.JS vs. STSdb

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NameGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storePort of SQLite to JavaScriptKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­datastorewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantsql.js.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperGoogleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSTS Soft SC
Initial release20082010200920122011
Current release3.2.0, December 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangErlangJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, details herenonoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesyesyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (GQL)nonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JavaScript API.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
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
JavaScriptC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresusing Google App EngineView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptErlangnono
TriggersCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using PaxosMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong 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 ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnono infolinks between data sets can be storedyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per databaseyes, using Riak Securitynono

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