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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. ObjectBox vs. SQream DB vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. ObjectBox vs. SQream DB vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 Mobilea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantobjectbox.iosqream.comterminusdb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.objectbox.iodocs.sqream.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#trafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014ObjectBox LimitedSQream TechnologiesDataChemist Ltd.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20102017201720182014
Current release2022.1.6, December 202211.0.0, January 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC and C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaProlog, RustC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary native API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
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
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnouser defined functions in PythonyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioningGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
online/offline synchronization between client and servernoneJournaling Streamsyes, 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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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