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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. KairosDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Realm vs. Teradata

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbobjectbox.iorealm.iowww.teradata.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantkairosdb.github.iodocs.objectbox.iorealm.io/­docsdocs.teradata.com
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014ObjectBox LimitedRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Teradata
Initial release20102013201720141984
Current release1.2.2, November 2018Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
hosted
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary native API.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersyesnonoyes infoChange Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandranonenoneSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraonline/offline synchronization between client and servernoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access controlyesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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