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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 vs. Interbase vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 vs. Interbase vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBMEmbarcaderoPercona
Initial release20101983 infohost version19842015
Current release12.1, October 2016InterBase 2020, December 20193.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC and C++CC++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageJavaScript
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Interbase Change ViewsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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