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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Drizzle vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. PouchDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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 search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score16.31
Rank#36  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score3.07
Rank#86  Overall
#15  Document stores
#11  Key-value stores
#47  Relational DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlpouchdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stableopensearch.org/­docs/­latestdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerAmazon Web ServicesOracleApache Software Foundation
Initial release20052008202120112012
Current release3.3.3, December 20237.2.4, September 20122.5.0, January 202324.1, May 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
Implementation languageErlangC++JavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesoptionalno
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
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoyesnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnowith Hadoop integrationyes
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
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
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 possibleACIDnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasePluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users and rolesno
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"DrizzleOpenSearchOracle NoSQLPouchDB
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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