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

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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 DataA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingrespouchdb.comrealm.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlyottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingrespouchdb.com/­guidesrealm.io/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperActian CorporationApache Software FoundationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Transaction Software GmbHYottaDB, LLC
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2012201419872001
Current release11.2, May 20227.1.1, June 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Sourcecommercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC and C++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
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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 viewsyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesby using the Octo plugin
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
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes
Triggersyesyesyes infoChange Listenersyes
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-loungenone
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 replicationyes
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 integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyesoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyes
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 realmnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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