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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Typesense

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.76
Rank	#219	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

typesense.org

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

doc.nuodb.com

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

typesense.org/docs

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Oracle

Initial release

2010

2013

2007

2015

Current release

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

.Net
C++
Java

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

tunable commit protocol

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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