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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Rdb vs. OrigoDB vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

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

origodb.com

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

origodb.com/docs

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Robert Friberg et al

Splice Machine

Initial release

2010

1984

2009

under the name LiveDB

2014

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

HP Open VMS

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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