DBMS > ITTIA vs. PouchDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP HANA vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison ITTIA vs. PouchDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP HANA vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.39
Rank	#273	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.ittia.com

pouchdb.com

rethinkdb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

rethinkdb.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

ITTIA L.L.C.

Apache Software Foundation

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SAP

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2007

2012

2009

2010

2011

Current release

8.7

7.1.1, June 2019

2.4.1, August 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

range based

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Database file passwords

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes

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