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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. EJDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  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)A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbboilerbay.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerSoftmotionsBoiler Bay Inc.EmbarcaderoMicrosoft
Initial release20052012200219842016
Current release3.3.3, December 20234.0InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageErlangCJavaCC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lessAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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 infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIin-process shared libraryAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnonoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageTransact SQL
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0nonenonenoneSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenoneInterbase Change Viewsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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