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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. NSDb

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesnsdb.io
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Microsoft
Initial release201020122017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesno
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Implementation languageErlangJava, Scala
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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 indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleoptimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
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 databaseAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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