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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. QuestDB vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comquestdb.ioswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlquestdb.io/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.QuestDB Technology IncSimer PlahaJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20102015201420182019
Current release3.3 July 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustScalaClojure
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL with time-series extensionsnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnononono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID for single-table writesAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsno
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IBM CloudantJaguarDBQuestDBSwayDBXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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