DBMS > PouchDB vs. RisingWave vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. RisingWave vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#237	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#362	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

pouchdb.com

www.risingwave.com/database

www.sqlite.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

RisingWave Labs

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transwarp

Initial release

2012

2022

2000

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

1.2, September 2023

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Rust

Server operating systems

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

Docker
Linux
macOS

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Standard SQL-types and JSON

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

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

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes

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