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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle NoSQL

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	2.50
Rank	#99	Overall
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Score	3.43
Rank	#75	Overall
	#13	Document stores
	#9	Key-value stores
	#40	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Oracle

Initial release

2010

2011

Current release

24.4, December 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Typescript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a document possible

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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.

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles

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