DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > CouchDB vs. Ehcache vs. GBase vs. IRONdb vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Ehcache vs. GBase vs. IRONdb vs. UniData,UniVerse

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it 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.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSMultivalue 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
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.ehcache.orgwww.gbase.cnwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Circonus LLC.Rocket Software
Initial release20052009200420171985
Current release3.3.3, December 20233.10.0, March 2022GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cV0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageErlangJavaC, Java, PythonC and C++C
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsoptional
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
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJCacheADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJava API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
JavaC#.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnouser defined functionsyes, in Luayes
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding infoby using Terracotta Serverhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby using Terracotta Serveryesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDnoACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoyesnoAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"EhcacheGBaseIRONdbUniData,UniVerse
DB-Engines blog posts

Couchbase climbs up the DB-Engines Ranking, increasing its popularity by 10% every month
2 June 2014, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

How to Automate A Blog Post App Deployment With GitHub Actions, Node.js, CouchDB, and Aptible
4 December 2023, hackernoon.com

How to install the CouchDB NoSQL database on Debian Server 11
16 June 2022, TechRepublic

IBM Cloudant pulls plan to fund new foundational layer for CouchDB
15 March 2022, The Register

CouchDB 3.0 ends admin party era • DEVCLASS
27 February 2020, DevClass

Tracking Expenses with CouchDB and Angular — SitePoint
28 August 2014, SitePoint

provided by Google News

Scaling Australia's Most Popular Online News Sites with Ehcache
6 December 2010, InfoQ.com

Atlassian asks customers to patch critical Jira vulnerability
22 July 2021, BleepingComputer

Hazelcast signs Java speed king to its in-memory data-grid crew
21 January 2014, The Register

Critical Jira Flaw in Atlassian Could Lead to RCE
22 July 2021, Threatpost

DZone Coding Java JBoss 5 to 7 in 11 steps
9 January 2014, dzone.com

provided by Google News

Application observability firm Apica buys telemetry data startup Circonus and adds more funding
21 February 2024, SiliconANGLE News

Apica Acquires Telemetry Data Management Pioneer Circonus And Lands New Funding
22 February 2024, Datanami

Apica gets $6 million in funding and buys Circonus -
21 February 2024, Enterprise Times

provided by Google News

Pinning Down Unidata S.p.A.'s (BIT:UD) P/E Is Difficult Right Now
21 May 2024, Simply Wall St

Unidata uses Jetstream to make geoscience data available to science community
29 January 2020, IU Newsroom

UniData implements a milestone Smart Class Room project at The Asian School | THE DAILY TRIBUNE | KINGDOM ...
8 April 2024, News of Bahrain- DT News

Data + software services
21 August 2018, UCAR

Bahrain Business: UniData implements major 'smart classroom' project
8 April 2024, Gulf Digital News

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here