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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. LevelDB vs. MonetDB vs. RavenDB vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. LevelDB vs. MonetDB vs. RavenDB vs. Sequoiadb

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesA relational database management system that stores data in columnsOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.monetdb.orgravendb.netwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationravendb.net/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014GoogleMonetDB BVHibernating RhinosSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20102011200420102013
Current release1.23, February 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 20235.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++CC#C++
Server operating systemshostedIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes, in SQL, C, RyesJavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding via remote tablesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per databasesimple password-based access control

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