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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Ignite vs. Oracle Coherence vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

ignite.apache.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

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

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2010

2015

2007

2011

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

14.1, August 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++, Java, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

configurable

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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