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System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Riak KV vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#100	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores
	#16	Vector DBMS

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.mcobject.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

McObject

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2001

2010

2015

2009

2015

Current release

8.2, 2021

3.3 July 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

yes, using Riak Security

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