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DBMS > CouchDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. PouchDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. PouchDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  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 platformDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#371  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggalaxybase.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasepouchdb.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlpouchdb.com/­guides
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MicrosoftApache Software FoundationTranswarp
Initial release2005201720102012
Current release3.3.3, December 2023Nov 20, November 2021V127.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangC and JavaC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
OpenCypher
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Go
Java
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptuser defined procedures and functionsTransact SQLView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with always 3 replicas availableMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes

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