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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

postgis.net

pouchdb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

postgis.net/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2005

2012

1987

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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