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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory JavaScript DBMSDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score2.58
Rank#105  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSrethinkdb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhereswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttechfort.github.io/­LokiJSrethinkdb.com/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SiteWhereSimer Plaha
Initial release20102014200920102018
Current release2.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaScriptC++JavaScala
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
TriggersyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding inforange basedSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
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 possibleAtomic single-document operationsnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoyes infousers and table-level permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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