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DBMS > Ingres vs. PouchDB vs. Realm vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

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

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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 DataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingrespouchdb.comrealm.iosphinxsearch.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingrespouchdb.com/­guidesrealm.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperActian CorporationApache Software FoundationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Sphinx Technologies Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2012201420011987
Current release11.2, May 20227.1.1, June 20193.5.1, February 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial 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
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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 availablenonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
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 unnecessarynoyes
Triggersyesyesyes infoChange Listenersnoyes
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 infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatorMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
nonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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