DBMS > LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

pouchdb.com

rockset.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.rockset.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Rockset

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2014

2012

2019

2012

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

dynamic typing

yes

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

via views

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP REST

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Automatic sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

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

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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