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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. PouchDB vs. Quasardb vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#14	Vector DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

pouchdb.com

quasar.ai

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

quasardb

Initial release

2016

2012

2009

2023

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

3.14.1, January 2024

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

Vector, Numeric and String

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

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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