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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from Clickhouse
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.44
Rank#255  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.49
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
firebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.firebolt.io
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.dragonflydb.io/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.firebolt.io
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Firebolt Analytics Inc.
Initial release2005202320122020
Current release3.3.3, December 20231.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxhostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptLualimited functionality with using 'rules'no
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationdepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasePassword-based authenticationyes, based on authentication and database rules

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