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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. PlanetScale vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. PlanetScale vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SWC-DB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantplanetscale.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014PlanetScaleSybase, SAPAlex Kashirin
Initial release2010202019932020
Current release0.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangGoC++
Server operating systemshostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntaxyesno
Triggersyesyesyesno
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
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
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.noyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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