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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. LevelDB vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. LevelDB vs. Quasardb

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbquasar.ai
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014KineticaGooglequasardb
Initial release2010201220112009
Current release7.1, August 20211.23, February 20213.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangC, C++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes infointeger and binary
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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