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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb vs. YottaDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory JavaScript DBMSNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sequoiadb.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Sequoiadb Ltd.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release2010201420132001
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaScriptC++C
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxDocker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexno
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
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSONPostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptJavaScript
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
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 possibleDocument is locked during a transactionoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenosimple password-based access controlUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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