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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Kingbase vs. Riak TS vs. RisingWave

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Kingbase vs. Riak TS vs. RisingWave

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.kingbase.com.cnwww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Open Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesRisingWave Labs
Initial release2010199920152022
Current releaseV8.0, August 20213.0.0, September 20221.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC and JavaErlangRust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoStandard SQL-types and JSON
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsyes, limitedyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsErlangUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers and Roles

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