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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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	#54	Key-value stores

Website

newdatabase.com

pouchdb.com

sql.js.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

pouchdb.com/guides

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Mobiland AG

Apache Software Foundation

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2018

2012

2011

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

7.1.1, June 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Windows

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

Windows

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JavaScript API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

JavaScript

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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

Windows-Profile

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