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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. EsgynDB vs. MarkLogic vs. RDF4J vs. SpaceTime

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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 TrafodionOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
RDF storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.esgyn.cnwww.progress.com/­marklogicrdf4j.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerEsgynMarkLogic Corp.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Mireo
Initial release20052015200120042020
Current release3.3.3, December 202311.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++, JavaC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes infoRDF Schemasyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoSQL92noA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptJava Stored Proceduresyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingShardingnoneFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication between multi datacentersyesnoneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes, with Range Indexesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsnoyes

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