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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. GeoMesa vs. HugeGraph vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSHigh performance Time Series DBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
kx.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docscode.kx.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerCCRi and othersBaiduKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMicrosoft
Initial release2005201420182000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032016
Current release3.3.3, December 20235.0.0, May 20240.93.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageErlangScalaJavaqC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (q)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Groovy
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsuser defined functionsTransact SQL
Triggersyesnonoyes infowith viewsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0depending on storage layeryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasehorizontal partitioningSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
depending on storage layeryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesvia hugegraph-sparkno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoedges in graphyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACIDnoACID
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.nodepending on storage layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageUsers, roles and permissionsrights management via user accountsyes
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"GeoMesaHugeGraphKdbMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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