DBMS > PouchDB vs. Quasardb vs. RocksDB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. Quasardb vs. RocksDB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

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Description

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

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Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

pouchdb.com

quasar.ai

rocksdb.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

doc.quasar.ai/master

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

quasardb

Facebook, Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

2009

2013

2012

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

3.14.1, January 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

simple authentication-based access control

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