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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SiteWhere vs. TigerGraph vs. YTsaurus

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#152  Overall
#14  Graph DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#323  Overall
#44  Document stores
#47  Key-value stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.tigergraph.comytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablefirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasesitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.tigergraph.comytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014SiteWhereYandex
Initial release20052012201020172023
Current release3.3.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxUbuntu
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 language (GSQL)YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Java
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptlimited functionality with using 'rules'yes
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyesnoACIDACID
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access controlAccess Control Lists

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