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DBMS > CouchDB vs. GeoMesa vs. PostGIS vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. GeoMesa vs. PostGIS vs. SWC-DB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.geomesa.orgpostgis.netgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerCCRi and othersAlex Kashirin
Initial release2005201420052020
Current release3.3.3, December 20235.0.0, May 20243.4.2, February 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangScalaCC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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 viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0depending on storage layeryes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
depending on storage layeryes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
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.nodepending on storage layernono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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