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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Speedb vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Speedb vs. STSdb

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeKey-value storeKey-value store
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.speedb.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MicrosoftSpeedbSTS Soft SC
Initial release2010201220202011
Current release4.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C#
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningnone
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.yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleoptimistic lockingyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
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 databaseAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesnono
More information provided by the system vendor
IBM CloudantMicrosoft Azure Table StorageSpeedbSTSdb
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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