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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.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

couchdb.apache.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

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

Baidu

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2005

2018

2010

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via hugegraph-spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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