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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Interbase vs. Realm

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

realm.io

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

realm.io/docs

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Embarcadero

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2010

1984

2014

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Interbase Change Views

none

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

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

Multiversion concurreny control

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.

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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