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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. PouchDB vs. Riak TS vs. SwayDB vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

pouchdb.com

swaydb.simer.au

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

pouchdb.com/guides

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Apache Software Foundation

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1991

2012

2015

2018

2009

Current release

5.7

7.1.1, June 2019

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Erlang

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

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

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

selectable replication factor

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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