DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. OpenSearch vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. OpenSearch vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak TS

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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 distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Spatial 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	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2010

2015

2021

2009

2015

Current release

3.3 July 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

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

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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 search fields are automatically indexed

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a document possible

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

MVCC based

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

yes

users and table-level permissions

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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