DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. ObjectBox vs. RRDtool vs. SQLite vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. ObjectBox vs. RRDtool vs. SQLite vs. Transbase

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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

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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	1.70
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sqlite.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.objectbox.io

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

ObjectBox Limited

Tobias Oetiker

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2010

2017

1999

2000

1987

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

1.8.0, 2022

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary native API

in-process shared library
Pipes

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

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++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

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

none

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

none

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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