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System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SQL.JS vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#351	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

rethinkdb.com/docs

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

SenX

Initial release

2012

2009

2012

2015

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

range based

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

users and table-level permissions

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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