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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Newts vs. SpaceTime vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#107	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

opennms.github.io/newts

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

OpenNMS Group

Mireo

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2010

2014

2020

2019

Current release

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java

C#
C++
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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