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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Access vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Access vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. TimesTen

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessquasar.aiwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MicrosoftquasardbOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20101992200920091998
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.14.1, January 20243.2.0, December 202211 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C++Erlang
Server operating systemshostedWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infointeger and binarynoyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
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
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoErlangPL/SQL
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnowith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoby using LevelDByesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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