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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. OpenEdge vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. OpenEdge vs. SQL.JS

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBApplication development environment with integrated database management systemPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.73
Rank#108  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score3.75
Rank#88  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#248  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.progress.com/­openedgesql.js.org
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Progress Software CorporationAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release201019842012
Current releaseOpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers and groupsno

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