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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OrigoDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

origodb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

origodb.com/docs

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

InterSystems

Robert Friberg et al

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2010

2018

2009

under the name LiveDB

2011

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

.Net

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

yes

Role based authorization

Based on Windows Authentication

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