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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Spatial extension of H2

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

CNRS

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2018

2013

2010

2012

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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