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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Drizzle vs. Manticore Search vs. OushuDB vs. RDF4J

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.64
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#300  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#358  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#208  Overall
#7  RDF stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgmanticoresearch.comwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablemanual.manticoresearch.comwww.oushu.com/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerManticore SoftwareOushuSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2005200820172004
Current release3.3.3, December 20237.2.4, September 20126.0, February 20234.0.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C++Java
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesFixed schemayesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
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.noCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languageFull-featured ANSI SQL supportno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBCBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
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
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnouser defined functionsyesyes
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera librarynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasePluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoKerberos, SSL and role based accessno

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