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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Geode vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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.

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

couchdb.apache.org

geode.apache.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

rocksdb.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

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

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Circonus LLC.

Facebook, Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2005

2002

2017

2013

1998

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

1.1, February 2017

V0.10.20, January 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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 (OQL)

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes, in Lua

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

yes, on a single node

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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