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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. LevelDB vs. Pinecone vs. Quasardb

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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 managed, cloud-native vector databaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.pinecone.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014GooglePinecone Systems, Incquasardb
Initial release2010201120192009
Current release1.23, February 20213.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageErlangC++C++
Server operating systemshostedIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoString, Number, Booleanyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
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
Python.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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