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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Realm vs. Riak TS vs. SpatiaLite

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#14  Vector DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comrealm.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlrealm.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Open Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20102015201420152008
Current release3.3 July 20233.0.0, September 20225.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoyes, limitedyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
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
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
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 JavaScriptnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryErlangno
Triggersyesnoyes infoChange Listenersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnoneselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual 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 lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsyesnono

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