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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Kdb vs. openGauss vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Kdb vs. openGauss vs. Riak TS

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsHigh performance Time Series DBMSAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiRiak 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 DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial 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
Score7.73
Rank#45  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#175  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#318  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comkx.comgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlcode.kx.comdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
www.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcHuawei and openGauss communityOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release201020152000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320192015
Current release3.3 July 20233.6, May 20183.0, March 20223.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesqC, C++, JavaErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language (q)ANSI SQL 2011yes, limited
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
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
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
C++
Java
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 JavaScriptnouser defined functionsyesErlang
Triggersyesnoyes infowith viewsyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno
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IBM CloudantJaguarDBKdbopenGaussRiak TS
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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