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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. PouchDB vs. SWC-DB vs. TerminusDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicpouchdb.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
terminusdb.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicpouchdb.com/­guidesterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperSpotifyApache Software FoundationAlex KashirinDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2014201220202018
Current release7.1.1, June 20190.5, April 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access control

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