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System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Solr vs. SwayDB

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NamePouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitepouchdb.comrethinkdb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresolr.apache.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesrethinkdb.com/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SiteWhereApache Software FoundationSimer Plaha
Initial release20122009201020062018
Current release7.1.1, June 20192.4.1, August 20209.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaJavaScala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingno
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
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
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptJava pluginsno
TriggersyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding inforange basedSharding infobased on HBaseShardingnone
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 replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsnooptimistic lockingAtomic 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.yesnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesno

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