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System Properties Comparison etcd vs. mSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. SwayDB

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storemSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
hughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.postgres-xl.orgpouchdb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
www.postgres-xl.org/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesApache Software FoundationSimer Plaha
Initial release19942014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20122018
Current release3.4, August 20194.4, October 202110 R1, October 20187.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCCJavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnono
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes, watching key changesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.noneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoMVCCnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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