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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

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Score	4.09
Rank	#84	Overall
	#15	Document stores

Score	5.34
Rank	#67	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#290	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/cloud/cloudant

riak.com/products/riak-kv

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Basho Technologies

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2010

2009

2011

Current release

2.1.0, April 2015

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript and Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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