DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. InfinityDB vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. InfinityDB vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Widely used in-process key-value store

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

boilerbay.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Boiler Bay Inc.

Google

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2010

2002

2014

1994

2009

Current release

4.0

2.1.12, February 2017

18.1.40, May 2020

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

JavaScript

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java

JavaScript

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

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

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes, using Riak Security

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