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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. PouchDB vs. searchxml vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. PouchDB vs. searchxml vs. SiteWhere

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantpouchdb.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantpouchdb.com/­guideswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software Foundationinformationpartners gmbhSiteWhere
Initial release2010201220152010
Current release7.1.1, June 20191.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenomultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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