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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. FeatureBase vs. InfinityDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score14.46
Rank#42  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.39
Rank#295  Overall
#136  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#376  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.molecula.comboilerbay.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.molecula.cloudboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsBoiler Bay Inc.
Initial release200520172002
Current release3.3.1, January 20232022, May 20224.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageErlangGoJava
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL queriesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Java
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyesACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using Linux fsyncyes
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 databaseno

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