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DBMS > HyperSQL vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
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Score3.90
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websitehsqldb.orgpouchdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release200120122011
Current release2.7.2, June 20237.1.1, June 20194.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
JavaScriptC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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