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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. CouchDB vs. HBase vs. Machbase Neo vs. PouchDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financecouchdb.apache.orghbase.apache.orgmachbase.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlmachbase.com/­dbmspouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAxibase CorporationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMachbaseApache Software Foundation
Initial release20132005200820132012
Current release155853.3.3, December 20232.3.4, January 2021V8.0, August 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree test version availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaCJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringnooptions to bring your own types, AVROyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptyes infoCoprocessors in JavanoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACsimple password-based access controlno

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