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DBMS > Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. SAP IQ vs. STSdb vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. SAP IQ vs. STSdb vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NamePostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedKey-value storeMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.postgres-xl.orgpouchdb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guideshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSAP, formerly SybaseSTS Soft SCRocket Software
Initial release2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2012199420111985
Current release10 R1, October 20187.1.1, June 201916.1 SPS04, April 20194.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC#C
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
WindowsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)optional
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.yes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client APIJava API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyesnoyes
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexernonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
SAP/Sybase Replication ServernoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoMVCCnoACIDnoACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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