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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. CouchDB vs. Firebird vs. Postgres-XL

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NameApache Doris  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocolA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.60
Rank#247  Overall
#113  Relational DBMS
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitedoris.apache.org
github.com/­apache/­doris
couchdb.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­apache/­doris/­wikidocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from BaiduApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerFirebird Foundation
Initial release201720052000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release1.2.2, February 20233.3.3, December 20235.0.0, January 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC and C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL client
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptPSQLuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0nonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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