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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

pouchdb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

pouchdb.com/guides

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Rackspace

Apache Software Foundation

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2013

2014

2012

1994

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

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

via views

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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.

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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