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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite vs. Yanza

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Name

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

Description

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.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.harperdb.io

pouchdb.com

www.sqlite.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

HarperDB

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Yanza

Initial release

2017

2012

2000

2015

Current release

3.1, August 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Node.js

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

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

server-less

Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.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

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using LMDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

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