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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. NSDb vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#15	Vector DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

nsdb.io

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2010

2015

2017

2006

Current release

3.3 July 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

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

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

Java
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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