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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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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	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Yandex

Initial release

2010

2015

2012

2000

2023

Current release

3.3 July 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

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

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

Access Control Lists

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