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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Newts vs. SwayDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

opennms.github.io/newts

swaydb.simer.au

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

OpenNMS Group

Simer Plaha

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2010

2014

2018

1999

Current release

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
Java API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Atomic execution of operations

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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