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DBMS > FatDB vs. OrientDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. OrientDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. RavenDB

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websiteorientdb.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgpouchdb.comravendb.net
Technical documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperFatCloudOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPApache Software FoundationHibernating Rhinos
Initial release201220102014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20122010
Current release3.2.29, March 202410 R1, October 20187.1.1, June 20195.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC#JavaCJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsWindowsAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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 functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL-like query language, no joinsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsJava, Javascriptuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyes infovia applicationsHooksyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationship in graphsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoMVCCnoACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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