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DBMS > EXASOL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PouchDB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PouchDB vs. WakandaDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeObject oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantpouchdb.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcescloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantpouchdb.com/­guideswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperExasolIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationWakanda SAS
Initial release2000201020122012
Current release7.1.1, June 20192.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaScriptC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoyes

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