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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

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Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#131	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Oracle

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2010

2007

2018

Current release

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Live Events

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

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

configurable

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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