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System Properties Comparison OrientDB vs. PouchDB vs. Quasardb vs. RDF4J vs. TimesTen

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NameOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeTime Series DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMS
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Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websiteorientdb.orgpouchdb.comquasar.airdf4j.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guidesdoc.quasar.ai/­masterrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPApache Software FoundationquasardbSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20102012200920041998
Current release3.2.29, March 20247.1.1, June 20193.14.1, January 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language, no joinsnoSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, JavascriptView functions in JavaScriptnoyesPL/SQL
TriggersHooksyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoconsistent hashingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesyeswith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationship in graphsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoby using LevelDByes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurablenoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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