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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Drizzle vs. Elasticsearch vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.hawkular.orghbase.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerElasticCommunity supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release20052008201020142008
Current release3.3.3, December 20237.2.4, September 20128.6, January 20232.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoyesnoyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoES-Hadoop Connectornoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDnonoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasePluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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