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DBMS > JaguarDB vs. LokiJS vs. Pinecone vs. PouchDB

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

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NameJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA managed, cloud-native vector databaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document storeVector DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#14  Vector DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.jaguardb.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.pinecone.iopouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperDataJaguar, Inc.Pinecone Systems, IncApache Software Foundation
Initial release2015201420192012
Current release3.3 July 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaScriptJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoString, Number, Booleanno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptPythonJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
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.yesyes 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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsnono

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