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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. OpenEdge vs. RavenDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

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Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	3.75
Rank	#88	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	3.01
Rank	#101	Overall
	#17	Document stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.progress.com/openedge

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Progress Software Corporation

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2010

1984

2010

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users and groups

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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