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DBMS > PouchDB vs. RavenDB vs. Riak TS vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. RavenDB vs. Riak TS vs. TerarkDB

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NamePouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitepouchdb.comravendb.netgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesravendb.net/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperApache Software FoundationHibernating RhinosOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2012201020152016
Current release7.1.1, June 20195.4, July 20223.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Sourcecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC#ErlangC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononono
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 viewsyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (RQL)yes, limitedno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyesErlangno
Triggersyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replicationselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availablenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAuthorization levels configured per client per databasenono

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