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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RRDtool vs. Trafodion

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtooltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doctrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OracleTobias OetikerApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2010201119992014
Current release24.1, May 20241.8.0, 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptionalNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyeswith Hadoop integrationnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)noACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
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.noyes infooff heap cacheyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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