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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. NSDb vs. OrigoDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. NSDb vs. OrigoDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#54  Document stores
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantnsdb.ioorigodb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantnsdb.io/­Architectureorigodb.com/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Robert Friberg et alVelocityDB Inc
Initial release201020172009 infounder the name LiveDB2011
Current release7.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangJava, ScalaC#C#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
Scala
.Net.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyesno
Triggersyesyes infoDomain EventsCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based authorizationBased on Windows Authentication

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