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System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SingleStore vs. SiriDB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	5.91
Rank	#61	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

pouchdb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.singlestore.com

siridb.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

SAP

SingleStore Inc.

Cesbit

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2010

2013

2017

2000

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

8.5, January 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Go

Server operating systems

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

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

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

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes

Sharding

hash partitioning

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

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

yes

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

simple rights management via user accounts

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