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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Dragonfly vs. GBase vs. GridDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  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 instanceWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.gbase.cngriddb.net
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.griddb.net
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Toshiba Corporation
Initial release2005202320042013
Current release3.3.3, December 20231.0, March 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C, Java, PythonC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp
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 viewsnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard with numerous extensionsSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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
C#C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptLuauser defined functionsno
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
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 scriptsACIDACID at container level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 databasePassword-based authenticationyesAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"DragonflyGBaseGridDB
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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