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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. MaxDB vs. OpenEdge vs. PouchDB vs. Sequoiadb

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmaxdb.sap.comwww.progress.com/­openedgepouchdb.comwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestpouchdb.com/­guideswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Progress Software CorporationApache Software FoundationSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20101984198420122013
Current release7.9.10.12, February 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 20207.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyesView functions in JavaScriptJavaScript
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDnoDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groupsnosimple password-based access control

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