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

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

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score16.31
Rank#36  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
quasar.ai
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.kinetica.comopensearch.org/­docs/­latestdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014KineticaAmazon Web Servicesquasardb
Initial release2010201220212009
Current release7.1, August 20212.5.0, January 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
Implementation languageErlangC, C++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate 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 persistentyesyesyesyes 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 levelCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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IBM CloudantKineticaOpenSearchQuasardb
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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