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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Geode vs. OrigoDB vs. QuestDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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 processesA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#54  Document stores
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggeode.apache.orgorigodb.comquestdb.iogithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablegeode.apache.org/­docsorigodb.com/­docsquestdb.io/­docs
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.Robert Friberg et alQuestDB Technology IncAlex Kashirin
Initial release200520022009 infounder the name LiveDB20142020
Current release3.3.3, December 20231.1, February 20170.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC#Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)noSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
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
.NetC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsyesnono
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infoDomain Eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Shardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyes, on a single nodeACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights per client and object definableRole based authorization
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