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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. CouchDB vs. Fauna vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

altibase.com

couchdb.apache.org

fauna.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.fauna.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Fauna, Inc.

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

1999

2005

2014

2012

2021

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.3.3, December 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Identity management, authentication, and access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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