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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. PouchDB vs. RDF4J vs. SQL.JS vs. SurrealDB

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NameMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Port of SQLite to JavaScriptA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRDF storeRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitemaxdb.sap.compouchdb.comrdf4j.orgsql.js.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesrdf4j.org/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Apache Software FoundationSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release19842012200420122022
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20247.1.1, June 2019v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptJavaJavaScriptRust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JavaScript APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
JavaScriptDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenonenone
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
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnononoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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