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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. GBase vs. Machbase Neo vs. MarkLogic vs. RDFox

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  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.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#348  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score4.15
Rank#70  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#8  Search engines
Score0.22
Rank#305  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#15  RDF stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.gbase.cnmachbase.comwww.progress.com/­marklogicwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablemachbase.com/­dbmswww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.MachbaseMarkLogic Corp.Oxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20052004201320012017
Current release3.3.3, December 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cV8.0, August 202311.0, December 20226.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial infofree test version availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC, Java, PythonCC++C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes infoRDF schemas
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL92no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScript
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factoryesreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDnoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes, with Range Indexesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyessimple password-based access controlRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsRoles, resources, and access types

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