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System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. SurrealDB

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NamePouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
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Score2.00
Rank#113  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.08
Rank#176  Overall
#30  Document stores
#16  Graph DBMS
Websitepouchdb.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationpouchdb.com/­guidessurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20122022
Current release7.1.1, June 2019v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptRust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no
Secondary indexesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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