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

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial 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
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score2.58
Rank#105  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.kinetica.comquasar.airethinkdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.kinetica.comdoc.quasar.ai/­masterrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014KineticaquasardbThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2010201220092009
Current release7.1, August 20213.14.1, January 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC, C++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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 indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageno
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
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnowith Hadoop integrationyes
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 possiblenoACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
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 modeno
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 trailyes infousers and table-level permissions

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