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DBMS > Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB vs. Transbase

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory JavaScript DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpouchdb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpouchdb.com/­guideswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20122010201420121987
Current release3.1.3, April 20227.1.1, June 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen SourceOpen Sourcecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaScriptJavaScriptC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnononoyes
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 viewsyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
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 nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoyes
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.yes 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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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