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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. GeoSpock vs. KairosDB vs. Kdb

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2High performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggeospock.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbkx.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablekairosdb.github.iocode.kx.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGeoSpockKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release200520132000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current release3.3.3, December 20232.0, September 20191.2.2, November 20183.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangJava, JavascriptJavaq
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewstemporal, categoricalnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noSQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBCGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnonouser defined functions
Triggersyesnonoyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Automatic shardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenonono
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users can be defined per tablesimple password-based access controlrights management via user accounts
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"GeoSpockKairosDBKdb
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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