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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb vs. ToroDB vs. Vertica vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb vs. ToroDB vs. Vertica vs. Warp 10

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLCloud 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.TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infoColumn orientedTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score10.06
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#344  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantquasar.aigithub.com/­torodb/­serverwww.vertica.comwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdoc.quasar.ai/­mastervertica.com/­documentationwww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014quasardb8KdataOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett PackardSenX
Initial release20102009201620052015
Current release3.14.1, January 202412.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoAGPL-V3commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containersno
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Implementation languageErlangC++JavaC++Java
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeYes, 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 datenoyes infointeger and binaryyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.no
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
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
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differencesyes infoWarpScript
Triggersyesnonoyes, called Custom Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingShardinghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioningSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyeswith Hadoop integrationno infoBi-directional Spark integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hashMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations
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IBM CloudantQuasardbToroDBVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™Warp 10
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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