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DBMS > CouchDB vs. Dgraph vs. GBase vs. HugeGraph vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Dgraph vs. GBase vs. HugeGraph vs. Lovefield

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgdgraph.iowww.gbase.cngithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
google.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledgraph.io/­docshugegraph.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerDgraph Labs, Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.BaiduGoogle
Initial release20052016200420182014
Current release3.3.3, December 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c0.92.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangGoC, Java, PythonJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#Groovy
Java
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnouser defined functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
TriggersyesnoyesnoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0yeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication via Raftyesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoedges in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno infoPlanned for future releasesyesUsers, roles and permissionsno

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