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System Properties Comparison Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NamePostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score103.35
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.postgres-xl.orgpouchdb.comwww.sqlite.orgwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guideswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDwayne Richard HippTranswarp
Initial release2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20122000
Current release10 R1, October 20187.1.1, June 20193.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoPublic Domaincommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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 viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language
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 infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
OpenCypher
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptActionscript
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 infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoMVCCnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infovia file-system locksyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoyes

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