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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Riak TS vs. VelocityDB vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Riak TS vs. VelocityDB vs. YugabyteDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBOracles in-memory data grid solutionRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score1.90
Rank#127  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#318  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#108  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencevelocitydb.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestvelocitydb.com/­UserGuidedocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OracleOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesVelocityDB IncYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20102007201520112017
Current release14.1, August 20233.0.0, September 20227.x2.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaErlangC#C and C++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Any that supports .NETLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnorestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes, limitednoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NetJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.NetC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoErlangnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyesyes infoLive Eventsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelselectable replication factorBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between datasets can be storednoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleconfigurablenoACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infooptionallyyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationnoBased on Windows Authenticationyes
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IBM CloudantOracle CoherenceRiak TSVelocityDBYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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