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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LevelDB vs. OushuDB vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LevelDB vs. OushuDB vs. PouchDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA multi-model DBMS and application serverEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBpouchdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.intersystems.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.oushu.com/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffInterSystemsGoogleOushuApache Software Foundation
Initial release2014199720112012
Current release2018.1.4, May 20201.23, February 20214.0.1, August 20207.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesno
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Java
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C++
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneyesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integrationyes
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-storageACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes 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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoKerberos, SSL and role based accessno

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