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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Linter vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBRDBMS for high security requirementsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantlinter.ruprometheus.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantprometheus.io/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014relex.ruTobias Oetiker
Initial release2010199020151999
Current release1.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangC and C++GoC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyNumeric data only
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 infoImport of XML data possibleno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
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 lockingyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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