DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2010

2015

2012

1989

2020

Current release

3.3 July 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

rights management via user accounts

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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