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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. InfinityDB vs. IRONdb vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. InfinityDB vs. IRONdb vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantboilerbay.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Boiler Bay Inc.Circonus LLC.Transaction Software GmbHVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20102002201719872011
Current release4.0V0.10.20, January 2018Transbase 8.3, 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree development licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC and C++C and C++C#
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes, in Luayesno
TriggersyesnonoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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