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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Coveo vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Ingres vs. LMDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareWell established RDBMSA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.coveo.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdb
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.coveo.comdocs.heavy.aidocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.lmdb.tech/­doc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerCoveoHEAVY.AI, Inc.Actian CorporationSymas
Initial release2005201220161974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2011
Current release3.3.3, December 20235.10, January 202211.2, May 20220.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ and CUDACC
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnonoyesno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0yesSharding infoRound robinhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replicationIngres Replicatornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasegranular access controls, API key management, content filtersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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