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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Dragonfly vs. GridDB vs. PouchDB vs. TypeDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  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 instanceScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBTypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS infoThe data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  Object oriented DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
griddb.netpouchdb.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.griddb.netpouchdb.com/­guidestypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerDragonflyDB team and community contributorsToshiba CorporationApache Software FoundationVaticle
Initial release20052023201320122016
Current release3.3.3, December 20231.0, March 20235.1, August 20227.1.1, June 20192.28.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C++JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampnoyes
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 viewsnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)nono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)
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++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptAll JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptLuanoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeno
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Synchronous replication via raft
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
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 scriptsACID at container levelnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasePassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"DragonflyGridDBPouchDBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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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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Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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