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

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

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

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

siridb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.siridb.com

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Cesbit

STS Soft SC

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2010

2009

2017

2011

2017

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP API

.NET Client API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

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
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Erlang

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes, using Riak Security

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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