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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite vs. SQream DB vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

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Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.sqream.com

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

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

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

SQream Technologies

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

1984

2012

2000

2017

2022

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

server-less

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

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-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate 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

via file-system locks

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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