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

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

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

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

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Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

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

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

pouchdb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

swaydb.simer.au

www.tigergraph.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.tigergraph.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

STS Soft SC

Simer Plaha

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2011

2018

2017

1998

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

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

Windows

Linux

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

.NET Client API

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

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C++
Java

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

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

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

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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