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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Memcached vs. Raima Database Manager vs. SwayDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingRDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database serverAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#259  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comwww.memcached.orgraima.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.raima.com
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalRaima Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release20102015200319842018
Current release3.3 July 20231.6.27, May 202415, June 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesCCScala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesno
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.nonono infoExporting/Importing of XML structures possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoyes infobased on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specificationno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnono
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IBM CloudantJaguarDBMemcachedRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_VistaSwayDB
Specific characteristicsRaima Database Manager (RDM) is an embedded time-series database optimized to run...
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Competitive advantagesDecreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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Typical application scenariosTypical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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Key customersInfor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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Market metricsOver 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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