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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

pouchdb.com

ravendb.net

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

pouchdb.com/guides

ravendb.net/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Google

Apache Software Foundation

Hibernating Rhinos

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2012

2010

2019

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

7.1.1, June 2019

5.4, July 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Clojure

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

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

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language (RQL)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Multi-source replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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