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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Geode vs. MariaDB vs. OrigoDB vs. QuestDB

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Name

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

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	7.46
Rank	#51	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	83.44
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Website

couchdb.apache.org

geode.apache.org

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

origodb.com

questdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

geode.apache.org/docs

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

origodb.com/docs

questdb.io/docs

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.

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Robert Friberg et al

QuestDB Technology Inc

Initial release

2005

2002

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2009

under the name LiveDB

2014

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

1.1, February 2017

11.5.2, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

C and C++

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

yes

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

depending on model

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

through memory mapped files

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

Role based authorization

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