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System Properties Comparison OrientDB vs. PouchDB vs. searchxml vs. SwayDB

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NameOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.27
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#15  Key-value stores
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score0.01
Rank#386  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websiteorientdb.orgpouchdb.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guideswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPApache Software Foundationinformationpartners gmbhSimer Plaha
Initial release2010201220152018
Current release3.2.29, March 20247.1.1, June 20191.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language, no joinsnonono
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
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, JavascriptView functions in JavaScriptyes infoon the application serverno
TriggersHooksyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenonenone
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
yes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationship in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnomultiple readers, single writerAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurablenoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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