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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HugeGraph

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.dolphindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasefirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorehugegraph.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerDolphinDB, IncGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GoogleBaidu
Initial release20052018201220172018
Current release3.3.3, December 2023v2.00.4, January 20220.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree community version availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageErlangC++Java
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
hostedhostedLinux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range index
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
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
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobs
TriggersyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes, with Cloud Functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioningShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoUsing Cloud Dataflowvia hugegraph-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoedges in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyesyesyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAdministrators, Users, Groupsyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Users, roles and permissions

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