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System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. Quasardb vs. TerminusDB vs. VoltDB

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NamePouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitepouchdb.comquasar.aiterminusdb.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesdoc.quasar.ai/­masterterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.voltdb.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationquasardbDataChemist Ltd.VoltDB Inc.
Initial release2012200920182010
Current release7.1.1, June 20193.14.1, January 202411.0.0, January 202311.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++Prolog, RustJava, C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoyesJava
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoconsistent hashingGraph PartitioningSharding
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 factorJournaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyeswith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoby using LevelDByes infoin-memory journalingyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailRole-based access controlUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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