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DBMS > PouchDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. SwayDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. SwayDB vs. Valentina Server

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NamePouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  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.Spatial extension of SQLiteAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeSpatial DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitepouchdb.comrethinkdb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexswaydb.simer.auwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesrethinkdb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperApache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Alessandro FurieriSimer PlahaParadigma Software
Initial release20122009200820181999
Current release7.1.1, June 20192.4.1, August 20205.0.0, August 20205.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesnoyes
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 viewsyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ODBC
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
Java
Kotlin
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnonoyes
TriggersyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding inforange basednonenone
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 replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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.yesnoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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