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DBMS > CouchDB vs. Dolt vs. Galaxybase vs. ObjectBox vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Dolt vs. Galaxybase vs. ObjectBox vs. XTDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSObject oriented DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.02
Rank#191  Overall
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
galaxybase.comobjectbox.iogithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.dolthub.comdocs.objectbox.iowww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerDoltHub IncChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司ObjectBox LimitedJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20052018201720172019
Current release3.3.3, December 2023Nov 20, November 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangGoC and JavaC and C++Clojure
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesStrong typed schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APICLI Client
HTTP REST
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Proprietary native APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyes infocurrently in alpha releaseuser defined procedures and functionsnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.online/offline synchronization between client and serveryes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupRole-based access controlyes
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