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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. PouchDB vs. Realm vs. RethinkDB vs. Transbase

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.63
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score7.18
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score2.58
Rank#105  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.05
Rank#355  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingrespouchdb.comrealm.iorethinkdb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingrespouchdb.com/­guidesrealm.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperActian CorporationApache Software FoundationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2012201420091987
Current release12.0, July 20247.1.1, June 20192.4.1, August 2020Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++C and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes
Triggersyesyesyes infoChange ListenersClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatorMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
noneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDAtomic single-document operationsyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoIn-Memory realmnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesyes infousers and table-level permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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