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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. ObjectBox vs. OrientDB vs. SQLite vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Document store

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

objectbox.io

orientdb.org

www.sqlite.org

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.objectbox.io

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

ObjectBox Limited

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Dwayne Richard Hipp

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2010

2017

2010

2000

2003

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Java

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary native API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Java, Javascript

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

via file-system locks

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.

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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14 November 2023

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