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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Quasardb vs. Riak TS vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Quasardb vs. Riak TS vs. TimescaleDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#318  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score4.06
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comquasar.aiwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.quasardbOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesTimescale
Initial release20102015200920152017
Current release3.3 July 20233.14.1, January 20243.0.0, September 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++ErlangC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infointeger and binarynonumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languageyes, limitedyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
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
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoErlanguser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnowith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between datasets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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