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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JSqlDb vs. Kingbase vs. YottaDB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.kingbase.com.cn

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Konrad von Backstrom

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2010

2018

1999

2001

Current release

0.8, December 2018

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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