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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. ObjectBox vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQream DB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. ObjectBox vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQream DB vs. Trafodion

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeObject oriented DBMSRelational 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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantobjectbox.iowww.sadasengine.comsqream.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.objectbox.iowww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationdocs.sqream.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014ObjectBox LimitedSADAS s.r.l.SQream TechnologiesApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20102017200620172014
Current release8.02022.1.6, December 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC and C++C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonouser defined functions in PythonJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioninghorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
online/offline synchronization between client and servernonenoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
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 lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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