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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Newts vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Newts vs. PostGIS

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comopennms.github.io/­newtspostgis.net
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.OpenNMS Group
Initial release2010201520142005
Current release3.3 July 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonouser defined functions
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsnoyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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