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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Fauna vs. GeoMesa vs. Ignite vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Widely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgfauna.comwww.geomesa.orgignite.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.fauna.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerFauna, Inc.CCRi and othersApache Software FoundationOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release20052014201420151994
Current release3.3.3, December 20235.0.0, May 2024Apache Ignite 2.618.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangScalaScalaC++, Java, .NetC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesno
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.nononoyesyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
Triggersyesnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingdepending on storage layerShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationdepending on storage layeryes (replicated cache)Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
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.nonodepending on storage layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsno

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