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DBMS > CouchDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. OrigoDB vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. OrigoDB vs. QuestDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series 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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Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score2.72
Rank#100  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
#5  Vector DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#54  Document stores
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.dolphindb.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessorigodb.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessorigodb.com/­docsquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerDolphinDB, IncMicrosoftRobert Friberg et alQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2005201819922009 infounder the name LiveDB2014
Current release3.3.3, December 2023v2.00.4, January 20221902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree community version availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C++C#Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoSQL with time-series extensions
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
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
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++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.NetC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesno
Triggersyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioningnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesdepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyesACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAdministrators, Users, Groupsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Role based authorization
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