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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. H2GIS vs. LevelDB vs. PouchDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2GIS vs. LevelDB vs. PouchDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySpatial extension of H2Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSearch engine
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­google/­leveldbpouchdb.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homegithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCNRSGoogleApache Software FoundationTranswarp
Initial release2014201320112012
Current release1.23, February 20217.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnonoyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2noView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on H2noneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes 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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on H2nono

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