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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.07
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Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Website

boilerbay.com

pouchdb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

pouchdb.com/guides

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

STS Soft SC

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2002

2012

2011

2018

Current release

4.0

7.1.1, June 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

.NET Client API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

C#
Java

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

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