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DBMS > CouchDB vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RDF4J

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRDF 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
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.exasol.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerExasolMicrosoftPerconaSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20052000201620152004
Current release3.3.3, December 20233.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C++Java
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 viewsyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONJava 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
Java
Lua
Python
R
C#
Java
PHP
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsTransact SQLJavaScriptyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoHadoop integrationnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.noyesyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users and rolesno

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