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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. PouchDB vs. Quasardb vs. SQLite

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NameMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.65
Rank#111  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score116.01
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitemaxdb.sap.compouchdb.comquasar.aiwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Apache Software FoundationquasardbDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release1984201220092000
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20247.1.1, June 20193.14.1, January 20243.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC++C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infointeger and binaryyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyeswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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