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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.sqream.com

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2012

2000

2017

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

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

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

horizontal and vertical 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

Relationships in graphs

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

Role-based access control

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