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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak TS vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak TS vs. Trafodion

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comrethinkdb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latesttrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Open Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20102015200920152014
Current release3.3 July 20232.4.1, August 20203.0.0, September 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open 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++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyes
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
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
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
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoErlangJava Stored Procedures
TriggersyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding inforange basedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factoryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
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 possiblenoAtomic single-document operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsyes infousers and table-level permissionsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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