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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Ehcache vs. InfinityDB vs. InfluxDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceDBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score4.82
Rank#65  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score4.79
Rank#66  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.ehcache.orgboilerbay.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.datastax.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerDataStaxTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGBoiler Bay Inc.
Initial release20052011200920022013
Current release3.3.3, December 20236.8, April 20203.10.0, March 20224.02.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysNumeric data and Strings
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
JCacheAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaJava.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnononono
Triggersyesyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingyes infoby using Terracotta Servernoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnonosimple rights management via user accounts
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"Datastax EnterpriseEhcacheInfinityDBInfluxDB
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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