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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. OrigoDB vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

origodb.com

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

origodb.com/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Robert Friberg et al

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2010

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

2012

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

User defined using .NET types and collections

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

.Net

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a document possible

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

Write ahead log

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role based authorization

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