DBMS > CouchDB vs. EsgynDB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OushuDB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. EsgynDB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OushuDB

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Name

Description

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

couchdb.apache.org

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Esgyn

Microsoft

Oushu

Initial release

2005

2015

2014

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++, Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

via views

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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