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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Coveo vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OrigoDB vs. Riak KV

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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 comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  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 hardwareA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.coveo.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
origodb.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.coveo.comdocs.heavy.aiorigodb.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerCoveoHEAVY.AI, Inc.Robert Friberg et alOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2005201220162009 infounder the name LiveDB2009
Current release3.3.3, December 20235.10, January 20223.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ and CUDAC#Erlang
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
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 datenoyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsno
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 infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
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
.NetC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnonoyesErlang
Triggersyesyesnoyes infoDomain Eventsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0yesSharding infoRound robinhorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnodepending on modelno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
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-standardRole based authorizationyes, using Riak Security

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