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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Sequoiadb vs. Vertica vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	10.06
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.sequoiadb.com

www.vertica.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Sequoiadb Ltd.

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Yanza

Initial release

2010

2013

2005

2015

Current release

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

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

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

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

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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