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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge vs. openGauss

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

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  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 systemAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.kinetica.comobjectbox.iowww.progress.com/­openedgegitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.kinetica.comdocs.objectbox.iodocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014KineticaObjectBox LimitedProgress Software CorporationHuawei and openGauss community
Initial release20102012201719842019
Current release7.1, August 2021OpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC, C++C and C++C, C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL 2011
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
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)C
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsnoyesyes
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)
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 replicationSource-replica replication
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes
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 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 RAMnonono
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, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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