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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV vs. Riak TS

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
#16  Vector DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#318  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlpouchdb.com/­guideswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.Apache Software FoundationOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20102015201220092015
Current release3.3 July 20237.1.1, June 20193.2.0, December 20223.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaScriptErlangErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnonono
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsrestrictedrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnonoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoView functions in JavaScriptErlangErlang
Triggersyesnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factorselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be storedno infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsnoyes, using Riak Securityno

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