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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. CouchDB vs. Netezza vs. PouchDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.In-memory caching systemA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#64  Key-value stores
Score10.26
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score10.18
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltcachelot.iocouchdb.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzapouchdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablepouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerIBMApache Software Foundation
Initial release20132015200520002012
Current release3.3.3, December 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++ErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux infoincluded in applianceserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia viewsyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes 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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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