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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Datomic vs. jBASE vs. Rockset

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
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DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.datomic.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaserockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.datomic.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.rockset.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerCognitectRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Rockset
Initial release2005201219912019
Current release3.3.3, December 20231.0.6735, June 20235.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageErlangJava, ClojureC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionaldynamic typing
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.nonoyesno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Clojure
Java
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyes infoTransaction Functionsyesno
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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