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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. OushuDB vs. SwayDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#363  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.oushu.com/­documentation
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OushuSimer Plaha
Initial release20102018
Current release4.0.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangScala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseKerberos, SSL and role based accessno

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