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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. KeyDB vs. Linter vs. PlanetScale

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. KeyDB vs. Linter vs. PlanetScale

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  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 protocolsRDBMS for high security requirementsScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.63
Rank#232  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#368  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Score1.09
Rank#178  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
linter.ruplanetscale.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.keydb.devplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.relex.ruPlanetScale
Initial release2010201919902020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-3commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageErlangC++C and C++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
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 indexesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
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
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptLuayes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
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 scriptsACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access control and ACLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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