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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge vs. SQL.JS

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileApplication development environment with integrated database management systemPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument storeObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantobjectbox.iowww.progress.com/­openedgesql.js.org
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.objectbox.iodocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014ObjectBox LimitedProgress Software CorporationAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2010201719842012
Current releaseOpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
online/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesUsers and groupsno
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