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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Derby vs. OrigoDB vs. Qdrant 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 comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  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.A fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Vector 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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgdb.apache.org/­derbyorigodb.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlorigodb.com/­docsqdrant.tech/­documentationwww.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 FoundationRobert Friberg et alQdrantAlessandro Furieri
Initial release200519972009 infounder the name LiveDB20212008
Current release3.3.3, December 202310.17.1.0, November 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 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 languageErlangJavaC#RustC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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.noyesno infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Java.Net.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptJava Stored Proceduresyesno
Triggersyesyesyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0nonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesdepending on modelyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorizationKey-based authenticationno

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