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

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

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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 KVDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#15  Vector DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comquasar.aiwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.quasardbOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologiesinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20102015200920152015
Current release3.3 July 20233.14.1, January 20243.0.0, September 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Sourcecommercial
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
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infointeger and binarynoyes
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, limitedno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
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
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoErlangyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingnone
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 factoryes infosychronisation to multiple collections
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 storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDnomultiple readers, single writer
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 trailnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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