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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant vs. ObjectBox

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantobjectbox.io
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablecloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGoogleGridGain Systems, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014ObjectBox Limited
Initial release20052017200720102017
Current release3.3.3, December 2023GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageErlangJava, C++, .NetErlangC and C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
online/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.nonoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Security Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes
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