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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. GeoMesa vs. RavenDB vs. SWC-DB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A 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.

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

couchdb.apache.org

www.geomesa.org

ravendb.net

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

CCRi and others

Hibernating Rhinos

Alex Kashirin

TempoIQ

Initial release

2005

2014

2010

2020

2012

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

5.4, July 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (RQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

depending on storage layer

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Authorization levels configured per client per database

simple authentication-based access control

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