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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. chDB vs. CouchDB vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

couchdb.apache.org

pouchdb.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

doc.chdb.io

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2023

2005

2012

2000

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

3.3.3, December 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Erlang

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

via views

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

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, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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