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DBMS > CouchDB vs. Dgraph vs. KeyDB vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Dgraph vs. KeyDB vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  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 DBMSAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgdgraph.iogithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledgraph.io/­docsdocs.keydb.devdoc.nuodb.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerDgraph Labs, Inc.EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Oracle
Initial release20052016201920132007
Current release3.3.3, December 202314.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD-3commercial infolimited edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangGoC++C++Java
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
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
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoLuaJava, SQLno
Triggersyesnonoyesyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0yesShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACID infotunable commit protocolconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno infoPlanned for future releasessimple password-based access control and ACLStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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