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DBMS > GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. Pinecone vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. Pinecone vs. PouchDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA managed, cloud-native vector databaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument storeVector DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.pinecone.iopouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Pinecone Systems, IncApache Software Foundation
Initial release20072010201420192012
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.17.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetErlangJavaScriptJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoString, Number, Booleanno
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnononono
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptPythonJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenono

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