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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. IRONdb vs. PouchDB vs. Realm vs. SiriDB

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityJavaScript 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 Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/pouchdb.comrealm.iosiridb.com
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedpouchdb.com/­guidesrealm.io/­docsdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Apache Software FoundationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Cesbit
Initial release20182017201220142017
Current release0.10, February 2024V0.10.20, January 20187.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++JavaScriptC
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyesyes infoNumeric data
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonono
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in LuaView functions in JavaScriptno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersnonoyesyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoyessimple rights management via user accounts

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