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System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. SQL.JS vs. Tibero vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

pouchdb.com

sql.js.org

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

TmaxSoft

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2012

2003

2010

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

6, April 2015

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and Assembler

Java, C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

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

none

Multi-source replication
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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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