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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenTSDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchopentsdb.net
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Microsoftcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release201020152011
Current releaseV1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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 indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
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 persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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