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

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#356	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

postgis.net

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

postgis.net/documentation

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2010

2015

2005

2010

Current release

3.3 July 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

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++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

based on PostgreSQL

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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