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System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SQLite vs. SwayDB vs. Valentina Server

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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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

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

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

pouchdb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sqlite.org

swaydb.simer.au

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

help.sap.com/hana

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

SAP

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Simer Plaha

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

2010

2000

2018

1999

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

Server operating systems

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

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

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

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

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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