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System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.81
Rank	#217	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#99	Relational DBMS

Website

pouchdb.com

www.sqlite.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

typedb.com

Technical documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Alex Kashirin

Vaticle

Initial release

2012

2000

2020

2016

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

0.5, April 2021

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

server-less

Linux

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

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++

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Sharding

by using Cassandra

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

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

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

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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