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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Linter vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Linter vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBRDBMS for high security requirementsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#368  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantlinter.rupostgis.netpouchdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantpostgis.net/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014relex.ruApache Software Foundation
Initial release2010199020052012
Current release3.4.2, February 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC and C++CJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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