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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. PouchDB vs. Realm vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transbase

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptJavaScript 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 time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldpouchdb.comrealm.iowww.timescale.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdpouchdb.com/­guidesrealm.io/­docsdocs.timescale.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperGoogleApache Software FoundationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019TimescaleTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20142012201420171987
Current release2.1.12, February 20177.1.1, June 20192.15.0, May 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaScriptCC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safariserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnonoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaScript.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes
TriggersUsing read-only observersyesyes infoChange Listenersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
noneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes 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.yes infousing MemoryDByesyes infoIn-Memory realmnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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