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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Kdb vs. SAP IQ vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsHigh performance Time Series DBMSColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS infocolumn-orientedMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comkx.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlcode.kx.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcSAP, formerly SybaseRocket Software
Initial release201020152000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200319941985
Current release3.3 July 20233.6, May 201816.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesqC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesoptional
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language (q)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
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#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnouser defined functionsyesyes
Triggersyesnoyes infowith viewsyesyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replicationSAP/Sybase Replication ServerSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoACIDACID infoconfigurable
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 accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based
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IBM CloudantJaguarDBKdbSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQUniData,UniVerse
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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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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