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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. KairosDB vs. NuoDB vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. KairosDB vs. NuoDB vs. Riak TS

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
#16  Vector DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#238  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.87
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#318  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlkairosdb.github.iodoc.nuodb.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20102015201320132015
Current release3.3 July 20231.2.2, November 20183.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaC++Erlang
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoyesyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoJava, SQLErlang
Triggersyesnonoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandradata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoACID infotunable commit protocolno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
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.nononoyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountssimple password-based access controlStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersno

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