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

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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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

maxdb.sap.com

opennms.github.io/newts

pouchdb.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

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

OpenNMS Group

Apache Software Foundation

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2014

2012

2013

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

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

Sharding

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

Source-replica replication

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

Document is locked during a transaction

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

simple password-based access control

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