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System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. TDengine vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#109	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#351	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Website

pouchdb.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.tdengine.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2019

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

3.0, August 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3, also commercial editions available

Open Source

MIT 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

Clojure

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

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

yes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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