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System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. Rockset vs. Splunk vs. STSdb vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

pouchdb.com

rockset.com

www.splunk.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.rockset.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Rockset

Splunk Inc.

STS Soft SC

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2019

2003

2011

1987

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

dynamic typing

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

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

none

Source-replica replication

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

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

yes

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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