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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. KairosDB vs. MariaDB vs. SQLite vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	83.44
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.sqlite.org

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

kairosdb.github.io

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Dwayne Richard Hipp

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2010

2013

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2000

2001

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

11.5.2, August 2024

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

server-less

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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