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System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SingleStore

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NameDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score6.31
Rank#57  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score0.52
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score2.84
Rank#106  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score5.91
Rank#61  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.postgres-xl.orgpouchdb.comrethinkdb.comwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationdocs.datastax.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperDataStaxApache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SingleStore Inc.
Initial release20112014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB201220092013
Current release6.8, April 202010 R1, October 20187.1.1, June 20192.4.1, August 20208.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Datastax Astra DB: Astra DB simplifies cloud-native Cassandra application development for your apps, microservices and functions. Deploy in minutes on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and have it managed for you by the experts, with serverless, pay-as-you-go pricing.SingleStoreDB Cloud: The world's fastest, modern cloud database for both operational (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) workloads. Available instantly with multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud capabilities
Implementation languageJavaCJavaScriptC++C++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnonoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyes
TriggersyesyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding inforange basedSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyesno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID infoMVCCnoAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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Datastax EnterprisePostgres-XLPouchDBRethinkDBSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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SingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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IEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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