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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. NSDb vs. OpenTenBase vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. NSDb vs. OpenTenBase vs. SwayDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTenBase  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesAn enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#370  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantnsdb.iogithub.com/­OpenTenBase/­OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org
swaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/­en
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OpenAtom Foundation, previously TencentSimer Plaha
Initial release201020172018
Current release2.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJava, ScalaScala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesno
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 indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
Scala
C
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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