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System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. Quasardb vs. SpatiaLite vs. TimescaleDB

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NamePouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSpatial extension of SQLiteA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitepouchdb.comquasar.aiwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationquasardbAlessandro FurieriTimescale
Initial release2012200920082017
Current release7.1.1, June 20193.14.1, January 20245.0.0, August 20202.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++C
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infointeger and binaryyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyeswith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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