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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. JaguarDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Document store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

IBM

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2010

2017

2015

Current release

2.0

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Active-active shard replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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 can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

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