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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

pouchdb.com

www.risingwave.com/database

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

RisingWave Labs

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

2022

2013

2003

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

1.2, September 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

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

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

UDFs in Python or Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and Roles

Access rights for users and roles

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