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System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ vs. ToroDB

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Description

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

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Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

pouchdb.com

www.snowflake.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TempoIQ

8Kdata

Initial release

2012

2014

2012

2016

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes

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

yes

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

simple authentication-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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