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System Properties Comparison JaguarDB vs. PouchDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. WakandaDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.timescale.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

DataJaguar, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Timescale

Wakanda SAS

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2015

2012

2017

2012

2009

Current release

3.3 July 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

2.15.0, May 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

none

Source-replica replication

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

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 capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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