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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Interbase vs. KeyDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.keydb.dev

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Embarcadero

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Initial release

2010

1984

2019

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

by using the Redis Search module

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Lua

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

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source 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

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control and ACL

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