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System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. RethinkDB vs. StarRocks vs. SwayDB vs. SWC-DB

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NamePouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitepouchdb.comrethinkdb.comwww.starrocks.ioswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperApache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Simer PlahaAlex Kashirin
Initial release20122009202020182020
Current release7.1.1, June 20192.4.1, August 20202.5.3, March 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++, JavaScalaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
JDBC
MySQL protocol
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
JavaJava
Kotlin
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsnono
TriggersyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding inforange basedhorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCC basedyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno

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