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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. EXASOL vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.exasol.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Esgyn

Exasol

Circonus LLC.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2015

2000

2017

2014

2012

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP API

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes, in Lua

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

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

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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