DBMS > Graph Engine vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. PouchDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. PouchDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

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Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.graphengine.io

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

pouchdb.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

pouchdb.com/guides

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Microsoft

InterSystems

Apache Software Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2010

2018

2012

2013

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

.NET

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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