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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. ObjectBox vs. RocksDB vs. TerarkDB

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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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

rocksdb.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.objectbox.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

ObjectBox Limited

Facebook, Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2010

2017

2013

2016

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

restricted open source version available

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

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

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

yes

none

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

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

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

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