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DBMS > CouchDB vs. Dragonfly vs. OrigoDB vs. QuestDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Dragonfly vs. OrigoDB vs. QuestDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 instanceA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
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Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.44
Rank#255  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#54  Document stores
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
origodb.comquestdb.iovelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.dragonflydb.io/­docsorigodb.com/­docsquestdb.io/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerDragonflyDB team and community contributorsRobert Friberg et alQuestDB Technology IncVelocityDB Inc
Initial release200520232009 infounder the name LiveDB20142011
Current release3.3.3, December 20231.0, March 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C#Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC#
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes
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 infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocol.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.Net
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
.NetC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptLuayesnono
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes infoDomain EventsnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelnono
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 for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasePassword-based authenticationRole based authorizationBased on Windows Authentication
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