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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge vs. Rockset

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.kinetica.comobjectbox.iowww.progress.com/­openedgerockset.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.kinetica.comdocs.objectbox.iodocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014KineticaObjectBox LimitedProgress Software CorporationRockset
Initial release20102012201719842019
Current release7.1, August 2021OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageErlangC, C++C and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesdynamic typing
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.nononoyesno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoclose to SQL 92Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsnoyesno
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Automatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyesUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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