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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Machbase Neo vs. Memcached vs. Oracle Coherence vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Machbase Neo vs. Memcached vs. Oracle Coherence vs. ToroDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOracles in-memory data grid solutionA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmachbase.comwww.memcached.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencegithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmachbase.com/­dbmsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MachbaseDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOracle8Kdata
Initial release20102013200320072016
Current releaseV8.0, August 20231.6.27, May 202414.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangCCJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Proprietary protocolJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersyesnonoyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factornone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnonoyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationAccess rights for users and roles

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