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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Oracle Coherence vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

IBM

Oracle

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2010

2014

2007

2011

Current release

14.1, August 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

.Net

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Based on Windows Authentication

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