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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. KeyDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
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Score2.53
Rank#103  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.68
Rank#223  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.keydb.dev
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.
Initial release20102019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesno
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Implementation languageErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenopartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search module
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protoco
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptLua
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access control and ACL

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