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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. InfinityDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

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

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

boilerbay.com

objectbox.io

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.objectbox.io

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Boiler Bay Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2010

2002

2017

2014

Current release

4.0

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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)

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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