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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. PouchDB vs. RethinkDB vs. ToroDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

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

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

pouchdb.com

rethinkdb.com

github.com/torodb/server

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

pouchdb.com/guides

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

8Kdata

Transwarp

Initial release

2010

2012

2009

2016

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL-V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

.NET

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

range based

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

users and table-level permissions

Access rights for users and roles

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