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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Derby vs. OrigoDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. YottaDB

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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 comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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 databaseSpatial extension of SQLiteA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgdb.apache.org/­derbyorigodb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexyottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlorigodb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerApache Software FoundationRobert Friberg et alAlessandro FurieriYottaDB, LLC
Initial release200519972009 infounder the name LiveDB20082001
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 infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC#C++C
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
server-lessDocker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesno
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 viewsyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Java.NetC
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
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 synchronizednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate 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 possibleACIDACIDACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
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 authorizationnoUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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