DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. JaguarDB vs. KeyDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. JaguarDB vs. KeyDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

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

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.intersystems.com

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.keydb.dev

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

InterSystems

DataJaguar, Inc.

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Microsoft

Initial release

2010

1997

2015

2019

2014

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

yes

JSON types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

by using the Redis Search module

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Lua

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control and ACL

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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