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DBMS > PouchDB vs. Realm vs. Splice Machine vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. Realm vs. Splice Machine vs. Transbase

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NamePouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.70
Rank#114  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score7.70
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.54
Rank#257  Overall
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#327  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitepouchdb.comrealm.iosplicemachine.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesrealm.io/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-workswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Splice MachineTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2012201420141987
Current release7.1.1, June 20193.1, March 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes infoJavayes
Triggersyesyes infoChange Listenersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDyes
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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoIn-Memory realmyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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