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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. PouchDB vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. PouchDB vs. RRDtool

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory JavaScript DBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.JavaScript 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 storeDocument storeSearch engineDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmanticoresearch.compouchdb.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmanual.manticoresearch.compouchdb.com/­guidesoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Manticore SoftwareApache Software FoundationTobias Oetiker
Initial release20102014201720121999
Current release6.0, February 20237.1.1, June 20191.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaScriptC++JavaScriptC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleannoNumeric 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.nonoCan index from XMLnono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScriptC 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 JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.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.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenononono

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