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DBMS > CouchDB vs. GeoMesa vs. MaxDB vs. PostGIS vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. GeoMesa vs. MaxDB vs. PostGIS vs. RethinkDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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 robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.geomesa.orgmaxdb.sap.compostgis.netrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentationrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerCCRi and othersSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20052014198420052009
Current release3.3.3, December 20234.0.5, February 20247.9.10.12, February 20243.4.2, February 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangScalaC++CC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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 viewsyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoyesuser defined functions
TriggersyesnoyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0depending on storage layernoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
depending on storage layerSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACIDACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
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 layernonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infousers and table-level permissions

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