DBMS > CouchDB vs. FileMaker vs. Newts vs. OpenSearch vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. FileMaker vs. Newts vs. OpenSearch vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Vector DBMS

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Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

couchdb.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

opensearch.org/docs/latest

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

OpenNMS Group

Amazon Web Services

quasardb

Initial release

2005

1983

2014

2021

2009

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

PHP

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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