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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Ingres vs. Kingbase vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Ingres vs. Kingbase vs. ObjectBox

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBWell established RDBMSAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score3.63
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#258  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.kingbase.com.cngithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Actian CorporationBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.ObjectBox Limited
Initial release20101974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s19992017
Current release12.0, July 2024V8.0, August 20214.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangCC and JavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like types
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres ReplicatoryesData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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