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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. DolphinDB vs. GBase vs. GridDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  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.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.dolphindb.comwww.gbase.cngriddb.net
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldocs.griddb.net
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerDolphinDB, IncGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Toshiba Corporation
Initial release2005201820042013
Current release3.3.3, December 2023v2.00.4, January 2022GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree community version availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C, Java, PythonC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageStandard with numerous extensionsSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyesACIDACID at container level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAdministrators, Users, GroupsyesAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"DolphinDBGBaseGridDB
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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