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DBMS > PostGIS vs. PouchDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. PouchDB vs. Transbase

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitepostgis.netpouchdb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guideswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release200520121987
Current release3.4.2, February 20247.1.1, June 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Sourcecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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