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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Ingres vs. JaguarDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Ingres vs. JaguarDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBWell established RDBMSPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.jaguardb.comwww.postgres-xl.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Actian CorporationDataJaguar, Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release20101974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2018
Current release11.2, May 20223.3 July 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangCC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesCScala
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres ReplicatorMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnoACID infoMVCCAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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