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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. NSDb vs. STSdb

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 KubernetesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantnsdb.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014STS Soft SC
Initial release201020172011
Current release4.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangJava, ScalaC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes 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.nono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
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 persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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