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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. KeyDB vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. KeyDB vs. Lovefield

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA multi-model DBMS and application serverAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
google.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.intersystems.comdocs.keydb.devgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014InterSystemsEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Google
Initial release2010199720192014
Current release2018.1.4, May 20202.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protoco
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesLuano
TriggersyesyesnoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access control and ACLno

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