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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. PouchDB vs. Tarantool

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#119	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#149	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#67	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

pouchdb.com

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2013

2012

2008

Current release

15585

7.1.1, June 2019

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

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

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

SQL-like query language

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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