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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. jBASE vs. Lovefield

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument storeMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.73
Rank#108  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.43
Rank#160  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#290  Overall
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasegoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Google
Initial release201019912014
Current release5.72.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptionalyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesno
TriggersyesyesUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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