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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. SiteWhere vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.kinetica.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014KineticaSiteWhereTranswarp
Initial release201020122010
Current release7.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC, C++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesno
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 RESTOpenCypher
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles on table levelUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes

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