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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB vs. RRDtool vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB vs. RRDtool vs. Splice Machine

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-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.Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
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
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpouchdb.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpouchdb.com/­guidesoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationTobias OetikerSplice Machine
Initial release20102014201219992014
Current release7.1.1, June 20191.8.0, 20223.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaScriptJavaScriptC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableJava
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoNumeric data onlyyes
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.nononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
in-process shared library
Pipes
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
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
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptnoyes infoJava
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesnoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
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 possiblenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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 infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenononoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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