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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#107	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#165	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

pouchdb.com

www.sqlite.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.tdengine.com

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2012

2000

2019

2018

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

3.0, August 2022

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

server-less

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

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

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

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

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

yes

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual 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

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

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