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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Pinecone vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.pinecone.io

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Oracle

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2010

2007

2019

2015

Current release

14.1, August 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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