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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityIn-memory JavaScript DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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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
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpouchdb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpouchdb.com/­guidessitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperInterSystemsApache Software FoundationSiteWhere
Initial release2018201420122010
Current release2023.3, June 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
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.yes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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