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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. CouchDB vs. JaguarDB vs. OushuDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

couchdb.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

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

DataJaguar, Inc.

Oushu

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

2005

2015

2011

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

3.3 July 2023

4.0.1, August 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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