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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. FatDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PouchDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

In-memory caching system

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

cachelot.io

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

FatCloud

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2015

2012

2013

1989

2012

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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