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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RisingWave vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
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	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

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

www.risingwave.com/database

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

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

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

RisingWave Labs

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2010

1984

2022

2013

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

HP Open VMS

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

UDFs in Python or Java

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

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Document is locked during a transaction

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users and Roles

simple password-based access control

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