DBMS > Kingbase vs. PouchDB vs. Riak TS vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. PouchDB vs. Riak TS vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kingbase.com.cn

pouchdb.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1999

2012

2015

2000

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

3.0.0, September 2022

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

JavaScript

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

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

Linux
OS X

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes, limited

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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