DBMS > MaxDB vs. Newts vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Newts vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

maxdb.sap.com

opennms.github.io/newts

pouchdb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

OpenNMS Group

Apache Software Foundation

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1984

2014

2012

2011

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java

JavaScript

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual 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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

New kids on the block: database management systems implemented in JavaScript
1 December 2014, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

SAP Content Server High Availability using Amazon EFS and SUSE
30 December 2020, AWS Blog

What is SAP S/4HANA?
21 March 2022, TechTarget

SAP Aligns Mainstream Maintenance Commitments Across Its Enterprise Solutions
11 August 2020, SAP News

Google Cloud adds backup vaults and centralized management
10 September 2024, Blocks & Files

Hana triumphs, MaxDB lives on
24 September 2015, e3mag.com

provided by Google News

Getting Started with PouchDB Client-Side JavaScript Database
7 September 2016, SitePoint

Create Offline Web Apps Using Service Workers & PouchDB
7 March 2017, SitePoint

Building an Offline First App with PouchDB
10 March 2014, SitePoint

provided by Google News

Share this page