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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield vs. PostGIS vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield vs. PostGIS vs. SurrealDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldpostgis.netsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdpostgis.net/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014GoogleSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2010201420052022
Current release2.1.12, February 20173.4.2, February 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaScriptCRust
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnouser defined functions
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, based on authentication and database rules

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