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System Properties Comparison Newts vs. PouchDB vs. RDF4J vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

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Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

opennms.github.io/newts

pouchdb.com

rdf4j.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

pouchdb.com/guides

rdf4j.org/documentation

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

OpenNMS Group

Apache Software Foundation

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

SiteWhere

Initial release

2014

2012

2004

2010

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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