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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSearch engine
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Score2.79
Rank#113  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score5.33
Rank#72  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#359  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.timescale.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.timescale.comdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014TimescaleTranswarp
Initial release20102017
Current release2.13.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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