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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Realm vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Realm vs. STSdb

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument storeMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverrealm.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9learn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)MicrosoftRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019STS Soft SC
Initial release20101991198920142011
Current release5.7SQL Server 2022, November 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C#
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptionalyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javano inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersyesyesyesyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
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.noyesyesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno

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