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System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV vs. Sphinx

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NameOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlpouchdb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guideswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperOracleApache Software FoundationOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2011201220092001
Current release24.1, May 20247.1.1, June 20193.2.0, December 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalnonono
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 viewsrestrictedyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptErlangno
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodswith Hadoop integrationyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)nonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoyes, using Riak Securityno

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