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System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. SurrealDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Spatial extension of SQLite

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

pouchdb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

surrealdb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

surrealdb.com/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Alessandro Furieri

SurrealDB Ltd

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2008

2022

1987

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

5.0.0, August 2020

v1.5.0, May 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

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

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

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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