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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. OpenEdge vs. PouchDB vs. Trafodion

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory JavaScript DBMSApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.progress.com/­openedgepouchdb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestpouchdb.com/­guidestrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Progress Software CorporationApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20102014198420122014
Current releaseOpenEdge 12.2, March 20207.1.1, June 20192.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaScriptJavaScriptC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnoyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)JavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptyesView functions in JavaScriptJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
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 possibleACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesyes 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.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoUsers and groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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