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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Coherence vs. OrientDB vs. STSdb

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBOracles in-memory data grid solutionMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherenceorientdb.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencewww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OracleOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSTS Soft SC
Initial release2010200720102011
Current release14.1, August 20233.2.29, March 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaJavaC#
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language, no joinsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoJava, Javascriptno
Triggersyesyes infoLive EventsHooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleconfigurableACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infooptionallyyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableno

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