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DBMS > PouchDB vs. Riak KV vs. Rockset vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. Riak KV vs. Rockset vs. searchxml

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NamePouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitepouchdb.comrockset.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationpouchdb.com/­guideswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.rockset.comwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperApache Software FoundationOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesRocksetinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release2012200920192015
Current release7.1.1, June 20193.2.0, December 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptErlangC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
hostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonodynamic typingyes
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedyes
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsrestrictedall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptErlangnoyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infono "single point of failure"Automatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factoryesyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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