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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. DolphinDB vs. OceanBase vs. PouchDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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.A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
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Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#147  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.dolphindb.comen.oceanbase.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasepouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerDolphinDB, IncOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupApache Software Foundation
Initial release2005201820102012
Current release3.3.3, December 2023v2.00.4, January 20224.3.0, April 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoCommercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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 infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript 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
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyesPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)Sharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication using PaxosMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
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, GroupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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