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DBMS > CouchDB vs. Dgraph vs. GeoMesa vs. Interbase

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Dgraph vs. GeoMesa vs. Interbase

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  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 DBMSGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSSpatial 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
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgdgraph.iowww.geomesa.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledgraph.io/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerDgraph Labs, Inc.CCRi and othersEmbarcadero
Initial release2005201620141984
Current release3.3.3, December 20235.0.0, May 2024InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangGoScalaC
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nononono infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnonoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0yesdepending on storage layernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication via Raftdepending on storage layerInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno infoPlanned for future releasesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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