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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. ITTIA vs. Riak KV vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.36
Rank	#272	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.ittia.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

ITTIA L.L.C.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2010

2007

2009

2018

Current release

8.7

3.2.0, December 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Erlang

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

Journaling Streams

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

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Database file passwords

yes, using Riak Security

Role-based access control

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