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DBMS > PouchDB vs. SwayDB vs. Titan vs. Vitess vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. SwayDB vs. Titan vs. Vitess vs. XTDB

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NamePouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQLA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitepouchdb.comswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanvitess.iogithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikivitess.io/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSimer PlahaAurelius, owned by DataStaxThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScaleJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20122018201220132019
Current release7.1.1, June 201915.0.2, December 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaJavaGoClojure
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infowith proprietary extensionslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoyesyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneyes infovia pluggable storage backendsShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
noneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of operationsACIDACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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