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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. DolphinDB vs. JanusGraph vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Spatial extension of PostgreSQLLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.dolphindb.comjanusgraph.orgpostgis.netwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldocs.janusgraph.orgpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerDolphinDB, IncLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusSybase, SAP
Initial release20052018201720051993
Current release3.3.3, December 2023v2.00.4, January 20220.6.3, February 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++JavaC
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
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
Clojure
Java
Python
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyesyesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioningyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)yes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAdministrators, Users, GroupsUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serveryes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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