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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. PouchDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Distributed Database based on Lucene

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.69
Rank	#226	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#11	Vector DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

cratedb.com

pouchdb.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

cratedb.com/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Crate

Apache Software Foundation

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2013

2012

2001

Current release

5.8.1, August 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

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

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

JavaScript

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

optimistic locking

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

rights management via user accounts

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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