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Name

Description

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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	#21	Document stores

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Website

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

postgis.net

pouchdb.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

postgis.net/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2005

2012

2000

Current release

2.5, January 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

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

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
Go
Java
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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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