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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. EJDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. jBASE vs. Stardog

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeDocument storeMultivalue DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.stardog.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.stardog.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerSoftmotionsGoogleRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Stardog-Union
Initial release20052012200819912010
Current release3.3.3, December 20235.77.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangCJava
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lesshostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes, details hereoptionalyes
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.nonoyesno infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnoyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (GQL)Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASICYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIin-process shared librarygRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnousing Google App Engineyesuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
TriggersyesnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication using PaxosyesMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and roles

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