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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. CouchDB vs. EJDB vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

iotdb.apache.org

couchdb.apache.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Softmotions

Initial release

2018

2005

2012

2014

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

3.3.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

via views

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

in-process shared library

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Read/Write Locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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