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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. OceanBase vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.66
Rank	#147	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

en.oceanbase.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2010

1994

Current release

4.3.0, April 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using Paxos

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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