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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Prometheus vs. Sadas Engine vs. Vertica vs. Yanza

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn orientedTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantprometheus.iowww.sadasengine.comwww.vertica.comyanza.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantprometheus.io/­docswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SADAS s.r.l.OpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett PackardYanza
Initial release20102015200620052015
Current release8.012.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree trial version availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containersno infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageErlangGoC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyesno
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 infoImport of XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.no
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differencesno
Triggersyesnonoyes, called Custom Alertsyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby FederationnoneMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono infoBi-directional Spark integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hashno
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IBM CloudantPrometheusSadas EngineVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™Yanza
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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