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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Solr vs. Spark SQL vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Solr vs. Spark SQL vs. TDengine

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantsolr.apache.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2010200620142019
Current release9.6.1, May 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaScalaC
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceSQL-like DML and DDL statementsStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJava pluginsnono
Triggersyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleoptimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesnoyes
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IBM CloudantSolrSpark SQLTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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