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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. STSdb vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	2.06
Rank	#118	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Percona

STS Soft SC

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2010

2008

2011

2001

Current release

8.0.36-28, 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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