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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. PlanetScale vs. PouchDB vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.09
Rank	#178	Overall
	#82	Relational DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

planetscale.com

pouchdb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

planetscale.com/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

PlanetScale

Apache Software Foundation

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1995

2020

2012

2008

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

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

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

proprietary syntax

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
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 across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID at shard level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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