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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

maxdb.sap.com

origodb.com

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

origodb.com/docs

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2010

1984

2009

under the name LiveDB

2015

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

Numeric data only

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

can be achieved using .NET

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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