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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

rocksdb.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Facebook, Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2010

1991

2013

2019

Current release

5.7

9.2.1, May 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual 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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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