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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Ingres vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Ingres vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB vs. RRDtool

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBWell established RDBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpouchdb.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.actian.com/­ingrestechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpouchdb.com/­guidesoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Actian CorporationApache Software FoundationTobias Oetiker
Initial release20101974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201420121999
Current release11.2, May 20227.1.1, June 20191.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangCJavaScriptJavaScriptC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnonoNumeric data only
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JavaScript APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScriptC infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres ReplicatornoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMVCCyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
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.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonono

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