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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. Pinecone vs. PouchDB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A managed, cloud-native vector database

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	3.02
Rank	#87	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.pinecone.io

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2017

2014

2019

2012

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

String, Number, Boolean

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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