DBMS > BigObject vs. MySQL vs. openGauss vs. PouchDB vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. MySQL vs. openGauss vs. PouchDB vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Widely used open source RDBMS

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
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Score	1.06
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Score	2.34
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	#21	Document stores

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.mysql.com

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

pouchdb.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Huawei and openGauss community

Apache Software Foundation

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2015

1995

2019

2012

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

3.0, March 2022

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, C++, Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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