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System Properties Comparison MariaDB vs. PouchDB vs. Prometheus vs. Raima Database Manager

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NameMariaDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemRDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score83.44
Rank#15  Overall
#10  Relational DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score7.56
Rank#49  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#268  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitemariadb.com infoSite of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org infoSite of MariaDB Foundation
pouchdb.comprometheus.ioraima.com
Technical documentationmariadb.com/­kb/­en/­librarypouchdb.com/­guidesprometheus.io/­docsdocs.raima.com
DeveloperMariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) infoThe lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL
Apache Software FoundationRaima Inc.
Initial release2009 infoFork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995201220151984
Current release11.5.2, August 20247.1.1, June 201915, June 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT MariaDB offers MariaDB in a fully managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant.
Implementation languageC and C++JavaScriptGoC
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows infoColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyes infoDynamic columns are supportedschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlyyes
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.yesnono infoImport of XML data possibleno infoExporting/Importing of XML structures possible
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoPL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3View functions in JavaScriptnoyes infobased on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesseveral options for horizontal partitioning and ShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes infoby FederationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infonot for MyISAM storage enginenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infonot for in-memory storage engineyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infowith MEMORY storage engineyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonono
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MariaDBPouchDBPrometheusRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista
Specific characteristicsMariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON...
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Raima Database Manager (RDM) is an embedded time-series database optimized to run...
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Competitive advantagesMariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
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Decreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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Typical application scenariosWeb, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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Typical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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Key customersDeutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Infor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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Market metricsMariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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Over 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,...
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Just as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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