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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Riak KV vs. Riak TS vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Riak KV vs. Riak TS vs. TerminusDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#318  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantterminusdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2010200920152018
Current release3.2.0, December 20223.0.0, September 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangErlangErlangProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyes
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 indexesyesrestrictedrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes, limitedSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
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 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
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptErlangErlangyes
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorselectable replication factorJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storedno infolinks between datasets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes, using Riak SecuritynoRole-based access control

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