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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenQM vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#101	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	2.76
Rank	#96	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#293	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

bigobject.io

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

InterSystems

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2015

2010

2018

1993

2018

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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