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System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. RDFox vs. Splice Machine vs. TerminusDB

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NamePouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitepouchdb.comwww.oxfordsemantic.techsplicemachine.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.oxfordsemantic.techsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software FoundationOxford Semantic TechnologiesSplice MachineDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2012201720142018
Current release7.1.1, June 20196.0, Septermber 20223.1, March 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
Java
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyes infoJavayes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
replication via a shared file systemMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRoles, resources, and access typesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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