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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. InfinityDB vs. QuestDB vs. YDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantboilerbay.comquestdb.iogithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualquestdb.io/­docsydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Boiler Bay Inc.QuestDB Technology IncYandex
Initial release2010200220142019
Current release4.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line ProtocolFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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 indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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IBM CloudantInfinityDBQuestDBYDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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