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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Geode vs. HyperSQL vs. Kinetica vs. TerarkDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggeode.apache.orghsqldb.orgwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablegeode.apache.org/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.kinetica.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.KineticaByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20052002200120122016
Current release3.3.3, December 20231.1, February 20172.7.2, June 20237.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaJavaC, C++C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)yesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsJava, SQLuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyes, on a single nodeACIDnono
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.noyesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno

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