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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Memcached vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Memcached vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.53
Rank#103  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score17.03
Rank#34  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.24
Rank#165  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.memcached.orgvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalVictoriaMetrics
Initial release201020032018
Current release1.6.29, June 2024v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangCGo
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocolGraphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
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 lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes
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 databaseyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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