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System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. RavenDB vs. RisingWave vs. SWC-DB vs. TerarkDB

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NamePouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 PostgreSQLA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA 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 storeRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitepouchdb.comravendb.netwww.risingwave.com/­databasegithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesravendb.net/­docsdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperApache Software FoundationHibernating RhinosRisingWave LabsAlex KashirinByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20122010202220202016
Current release7.1.1, June 20195.4, July 20221.2, September 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC#RustC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoStandard SQL-types and JSONno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (RQL)yesSQL-like query languageno
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
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyesUDFs in Python or Javanono
Triggersyesyesnonono
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 replicationnone
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
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 backendyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseUsers and Rolesno

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