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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Realm vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Widely used in-process key-value store

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Document store

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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

realm.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

realm.io/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2010

1994

2014

2019

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

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

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

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