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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. InfluxDB vs. KairosDB vs. Spark SQL

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.31
Rank#285  Overall
#129  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.postgresql.fastware.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbkairosdb.github.iospark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerPostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologyApache Software Foundation
Initial release2005201320132014
Current release3.3.3, December 2023Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 20222.7.6, April 20241.2.2, November 20183.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangCGoJavaScala
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0partitioning by range, list and by hashSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infobased on Cassandrayes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.noyes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountssimple password-based access controlno
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"Fujitsu Enterprise PostgresInfluxDBKairosDBSpark SQL
Specific characteristics100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesBuilt-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosTransactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsOver 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsCore based licensing
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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