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System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. SwayDB vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

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

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

Primary database model

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Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

pouchdb.com

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

swaydb.simer.au

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

STS Soft SC

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2001

2011

2018

2017

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

3.5.1, February 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

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++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

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

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

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

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

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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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