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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. HarperDB vs. NSDb vs. PouchDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comwww.harperdb.ionsdb.iopouchdb.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.harperdb.io/­docsnsdb.io/­Architecturepouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperThomas MuellerHarperDBApache Software FoundationVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20052017201720122018
Current release2.2.220, July 20233.1, August 20217.1.1, June 2019v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsJava, ScalaJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesdynamic schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringno
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 indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Java
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsCustom Functions infosince release 3.1noView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Synchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDBUsing Apache Luceneyes 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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesno

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