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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. TDengine

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score2.48
Rank#107  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantquasar.aigithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014quasardbOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2010200920092019
Current release3.14.1, January 20243.2.0, December 20223.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ErlangC
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infointeger and binarynoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoErlangno
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyeswith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes, using Riak Securityyes
More information provided by the system vendor
IBM CloudantQuasardbRiak KVTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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