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DBMS > Heroic vs. OushuDB vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. OushuDB vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningSpatial extension of PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#363  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBpostgis.netpouchdb.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.oushu.com/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperSpotifyOushuApache Software Foundation
Initial release201420052012
Current release4.0.1, August 20203.4.2, February 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaCJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyesno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlKerberos, SSL and role based accessyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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