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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Interbase vs. Kdb vs. LokiJS vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Interbase vs. Kdb vs. LokiJS vs. Sqrrl

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandHigh performance Time Series DBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMSAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasekx.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSsqrrl.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasecode.kx.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014EmbarcaderoKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release201019842000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320142012
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20193.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangCqJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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 infoexport as XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (q)nono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JavaScript APIAccumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
JavaScriptActionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesyes infowith viewsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Interbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsnoCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)
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Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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