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DBMS > CouchDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Interbase vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Interbase vs. Postgres-XL

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.featurebase.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.featurebase.comdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsEmbarcadero
Initial release2005201719842014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release3.3.3, December 20232022, May 2022InterBase 2020, December 201910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangGoCC
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 infoexport as XML data possibleyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL queriesyesyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Shardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyesACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using Linux fsyncyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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