DBMS > PlanetScale vs. PouchDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Spark SQL vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison PlanetScale vs. PouchDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Spark SQL vs. SQLite

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

planetscale.com

pouchdb.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

spark.apache.org/sql

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

planetscale.com/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

PlanetScale

Apache Software Foundation

Sybase, SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2020

2012

1993

2014

2000

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

Server operating systems

Docker
Linux
macOS

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

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Java
Python
R
Scala

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

yes

proprietary syntax

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at shard level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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