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NameMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used open source RDBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APITime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1061.34
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.mysql.comnsdb.iogithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
pouchdb.com
Technical documentationdev.mysql.com/­docnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.objectbox.iopouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunObjectBox LimitedApache Software Foundation
Initial release1995201720172012
Current release8.4.0, April 20244.0 (May 2024)7.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java, ScalaC and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes, plus "flex" map-like typesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Proprietary native APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java
Scala
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoproprietary syntaxnonoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyesno
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