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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. NSDb vs. NuoDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. NSDb vs. NuoDB vs. TimesTen

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.kinetica.comnsdb.iowww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.kinetica.comnsdb.io/­Architecturedoc.nuodb.comdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014KineticaDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20102012201720131998
Current release7.1, August 202111 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangC, C++Java, ScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsnoJava, SQLPL/SQL
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoACID infotunable commit protocolACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
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 infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles on table levelStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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