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System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. PouchDB vs. Realm vs. Splice Machine vs. Transbase

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NameDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
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Score5.80
Rank#60  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisepouchdb.comrealm.iosplicemachine.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.datastax.compouchdb.com/­guidesrealm.io/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-workswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperDataStaxApache Software FoundationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Splice MachineTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20112012201420141987
Current release6.8, April 20207.1.1, June 20193.1, March 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes infoJavayes
Triggersyesyesyes infoChange Listenersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar 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
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoIn-Memory realmyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnoyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Datastax EnterprisePouchDBRealmSplice MachineTransbase
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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