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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Riak TS vs. TDengine vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#15	Vector DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

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

docs.tdengine.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2010

2015

2019

1987

Current release

3.3 July 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

3.0, August 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes, limited

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes, via alarm monitoring

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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