DB-EnginesExtremeDB: mitigate connectivity issues in a DBMSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > CouchDB vs. Fauna vs. SiteWhere vs. SWC-DB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Fauna vs. SiteWhere vs. SWC-DB vs. TempoIQ

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgfauna.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
tempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.fauna.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerFauna, Inc.SiteWhereAlex KashirinTempoIQ
Initial release20052014201020202012
Current release3.3.3, December 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageErlangScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTProprietary protocol
Thrift
HTTP API
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
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnonoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
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 possibleACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseIdentity management, authentication, and access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptsimple authentication-based access control

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"Fauna infopreviously named FaunaDBSiteWhereSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column DatabaseTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB
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

DB Ransom Attacks Spread to CouchDB and Hadoop
31 May 2024, ITPro Today

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

Fauna Launches Distributed Document-Relational Database On Google Cloud Marketplace
21 March 2024, GlobeNewswire

Slicing the Gordian Knot: A leap to real-time systems of truth
3 February 2024, SiliconANGLE News

Fauna Adds Groundbreaking New Database Language and Seamless Developer Experience to Enterprise Proven ...
22 August 2023, Business Wire

CITES Trade Database surpasses 25 million trade transaction records
3 October 2023, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)

Fauna Query Language tamed to appeal to developers
22 August 2023, The Register

provided by Google News

SiteWhere: An open platform for connected devices
11 July 2017, Open Source For You

Ten Popular IoT Platforms You Should be Aware of
27 March 2023, Open Source For You

11 Best Open source IoT Platforms To Develop Smart Projects
9 March 2023, H2S Media

provided by Google News

2022 All O-Zone Football Team
17 December 2022, Ozarks Sports Zone

provided by Google News

Got big data? TempoIQ aims to point you to the insights in it - in the Chicago Tribune
10 July 2014, Built In Chicago

No-Code Internet of Things Development Platform
29 October 2015, Automation World

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

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

Milvus logo

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

Present your product here