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DBMS > CouchDB vs. FoundationDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. FoundationDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Manticore Search

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stableapple.github.io/­foundationdbcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerFoundationDBIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Manticore Software
Initial release2005201320102017
Current release3.3.3, December 20236.2.28, November 20206.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageErlangC++ErlangC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono infosome layers support typingnoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean
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.nonoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlynoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptin SQL-layer onlyView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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