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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. KairosDB vs. TempoIQ vs. ToroDB

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Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

tempoiq.com (offline)

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

TempoIQ

8Kdata

Initial release

2010

2013

2012

2016

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

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

simple authentication-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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