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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. ScyllaDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. ScyllaDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value storeSearch engine
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Score2.50
Rank#99  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score3.70
Rank#70  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#155  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.scylladb.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.scylladb.comdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014ScyllaDBTranswarp
Initial release20102015
Current releaseScyllaDB Open Source 6.2.0, October 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, Lua
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleyes infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users can be defined per object

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