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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. OpenTenBase vs. searchxml vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

informationpartners gmbh

SiteWhere

Initial release

2010

2015

2010

Current release

2.5, January 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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