DB-EnginesExtremeDB: the mission critical dbmsEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. openGauss vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. openGauss vs. YugabyteDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.16
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
Score1.19
Rank#196  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score3.82
Rank#96  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­cloud/­cloudantgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
opengauss.org/­en/­docs/­latest/­docs/­BriefTutorial/­BriefTutorial.html
docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Huawei and openGauss communityYugabyte Inc.
Initial release201020192017
Current release3.0, March 20222.17, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
YugabyteDB Managed is the fully managed database-as-a-service offering of YugabyteDB. Get started quickly, and effortlessly ensure continuous availability and limitless scale of your cloud native applications.
Implementation languageErlangC, C++, JavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data model
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL 2011yes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes
More information provided by the system vendor
IBM CloudantopenGaussYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
» more
Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
» more
Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
» more
Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
IBM CloudantopenGaussYugabyteDB
Recent citations in the news

IBM Expands Cloud Database Services with Kubernetes
26 September 2019, EnterpriseAI

IBM to Purchase Cloudant Database as a service (DBaaS) Provider
22 March 2014, App Developer Magazine

IBM Cloudant - Market Share, Competitor Insights in Database
20 March 2023, 6Sense

Guided Project: Get Started with Cloudant NoSQL Database
1 March 2023, edX

Cloudant
1 July 2022, dbdb.io

provided by Google News

openGauss Open Source Community Officially Launch
1 July 2020, Huawei

About HUAWEI Open Source
9 February 2022, Huawei

Take a close look at technology highlights of the 2022 Huawei Developer Competition
16 August 2022, Yahoo Finance

Huawei's Four Open Source Basic Software Projects Infuse ...
12 October 2020, PR Newswire

Huawei is fastest growing cloud provider in APAC, targets Indonesia ...
25 May 2022, Tech Wire Asia

provided by Google News

Yugabyte Announces Speaker Lineup for Third Annual Distributed ...
22 March 2023, businesswire.com

Yugabyte and SRA OSS Announce Strategic Partnership to ...
8 March 2023, businesswire.com

The Future of Databases Is Now
23 February 2023, Datanami

Yugabyte Releases YugabyteDB Voyager to Accelerate Cloud ...
1 February 2023, businesswire.com

Yugabyte Achieves SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 Attestations
27 October 2022, businesswire.com

provided by Google News

Job opportunities

Account Executive, Southeast
YugabyteDB, Remote

Sales Engineer
Aerospike, North, VA

Software Engineer, Database - Languages & Relational Technologies
YugabyteDB, Remote

Product Designer
YugabyteDB, Remote

Product Designer
YugabyteDB, Sunnyvale, CA

jobs by Indeed



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Cassandra Forward online event

Want to level up your Cassandra game?
If you missed the event or would like to re-watch a session, replays are available now. Watch now!

MariaDB logo

SkySQL, the ultimate
MariaDB cloud, is here.

Get started with SkySQL today!

Redis logo

The world’s most loved real‑time data platform.
Try free

AllegroGraph logo

Graph Database Leader for AI Knowledge Graph Applications - The Most Secure Graph Database Available.
Free Download

Present your product here