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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb vs. RocksDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.50
Rank#99  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score3.14
Rank#80  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantquasar.airocksdb.org
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdoc.quasar.ai/­mastergithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014quasardbFacebook, Inc.
Initial release201020092013
Current release3.14.1, January 20249.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infointeger and binaryno
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 indexesyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyeswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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