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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Realm vs. SWC-DB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store

Wide column store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

realm.io

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

realm.io/docs

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Alex Kashirin

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2010

2014

2020

2011

Current release

0.5, April 2021

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

.Net

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C++

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

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

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

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