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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. PouchDB vs. RocksDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

pouchdb.com

rocksdb.org

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

pouchdb.com/guides

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

Tencent

Initial release

2010

2012

2013

Current release

8.1, December 2018

7.1.1, June 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Linux

hosted

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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