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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2010

2017

1984

2013

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

Source-replica replication

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

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

yes, on a single node

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

simple password-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

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17 September 2024

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11 September 2024

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24 July 2024

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18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

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