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System Properties Comparison OrigoDB vs. PouchDB vs. Tarantool vs. TimesTen vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#139	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#24	Key-value stores
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

origodb.com

pouchdb.com

www.tarantool.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

origodb.com/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Robert Friberg et al

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2009

under the name LiveDB

2012

2008

1998

1987

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

2.10.0, May 2022

Release 22.1

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

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

BSD
Linux
macOS

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

User defined using .NET types and collections

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Open binary protocol

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes, write ahead logging

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role based authorization

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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