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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. GBase vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. QuestDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.gbase.cnignite.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasequestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stableapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software FoundationMicrosoftQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20052004201520102014
Current release3.3.3, December 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cApache Ignite 2.6V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageErlangC, Java, PythonC++, Java, .NetC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
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.noyesyesyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Transact SQLno
Triggersyesyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes (replicated cache)yes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACIDACIDACID for single-table writes
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.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"GBaseIgniteMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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