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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. GeoSpock vs. PouchDB vs. RavenDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­documentdbgeospock.compouchdb.comravendb.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcespouchdb.com/­guidesravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGeoSpockApache Software FoundationHibernating Rhinos
Initial release2014201920122010
Current release2.0, September 20197.1.1, June 20195.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, JavascriptJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnono
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 indexesnoyestemporal, categoricalyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBCHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
JavaScript.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic shardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic single-document operationsnonoACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes 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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenoAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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