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DBMS > PouchDB vs. RavenDB vs. RisingWave vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. RavenDB vs. RisingWave vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. searchxml

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NamePouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
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
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitepouchdb.comravendb.netwww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesravendb.net/­docsdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperApache Software FoundationHibernating RhinosRisingWave LabsSAP infoformerly Sybaseinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20122010202219922015
Current release7.1.1, June 20195.4, July 20221.2, September 202317, July 20151.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC#RustC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoStandard SQL-types and JSONyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (RQL)yesyesno
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
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyesUDFs in Python or Javayes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingnonenone
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 replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
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.Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availablenoACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseUsers and Rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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