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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. IBM Cloudant vs. KeyDB vs. OrientDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
orientdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.keydb.devwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release2015201020192010
Current release3.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedLinuxAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnopartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptLuaJava, Javascript
TriggersnoyesnoHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access control and ACLAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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