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DBMS > BigObject vs. IBM Cloudant vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. IBM Cloudant vs. jBASE

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument storeMultivalue DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release201520101991
Current release5.7
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
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Implementation languageErlang
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnooptional
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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