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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Graphite vs. Rockset

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
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Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggalaxybase.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webrockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablegraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.rockset.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Chris DavisRockset
Initial release2005201720062019
Current release3.3.3, December 2023Nov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageErlangC and JavaPythonC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Unix
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlydynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Go
Java
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptuser defined procedures and functionsnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingnoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole-based access controlnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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