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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQLite vs. TerarkDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.sequoiadb.comwww.sqlite.orggithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Sequoiadb Ltd.Dwayne Richard HippByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2010201320002016
Current release3.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoPublic Domaincommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++CC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.no
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIproprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJavaScriptnono
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleDocument is locked during a transactionACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access controlnono

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