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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. KairosDB vs. Newts vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

opennms.github.io/newts

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

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

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

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

OpenNMS Group

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2010

2013

2014

1987

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

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
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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