DBMS > CouchDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. WakandaDB vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. WakandaDB vs. YugabyteDB

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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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

couchdb.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

wakanda.github.io

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

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

Google

Microsoft

Wakanda SAS

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2005

2010

2012

2017

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++, JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

optimistic locking

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

yes

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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