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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. LokiJS vs. Newts vs. OpenQM vs. PouchDB

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityIn-memory JavaScript DBMSTime Series DBMS based on CassandraQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument store
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Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSopennms.github.io/­newtswww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmpouchdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperInterSystemsOpenNMS GroupRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsApache Software Foundation
Initial release20182014201419932012
Current release2023.3, June 20233.4-127.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIHTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptJava.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptnoyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandrayesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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 infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno
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InterSystems IRISLokiJSNewtsOpenQM infoalso called QMPouchDB
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