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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. OpenTSDB vs. PlanetScale vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantopentsdb.netplanetscale.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlplanetscale.com/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsPlanetScaleSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release2010201120201992
Current release17, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes infoproprietary syntaxyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBaseShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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