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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Derby vs. GridGain vs. Newts vs. SpatiaLite

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteTime Series DBMS based on CassandraSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgdb.apache.org/­derbywww.gridgain.comopennms.github.io/­newtswww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerApache Software FoundationGridGain Systems, Inc.OpenNMS GroupAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20051997200720142008
Current release3.3.3, December 202310.17.1.0, November 2023GridGain 8.5.15.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaJava, C++, .NetJavaC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBCHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
JavaC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptJava Stored Proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nono
Triggersyesyesyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnono

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