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

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NameLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory JavaScript DBMSMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)A managed, cloud-native vector databaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSorientdb.orgwww.pinecone.iopouchdb.com
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPPinecone Systems, IncApache Software Foundation
Initial release2014201020192012
Current release3.2.29, March 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesString, 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 indexesyes infovia viewsyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language, no joinsnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
PythonJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptJava, JavascriptView functions in JavaScript
TriggersyesHooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes 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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableno

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