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DBMS > CouchDB vs. Graph Engine vs. InterSystems Caché vs. ObjectBox vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Graph Engine vs. InterSystems Caché vs. ObjectBox vs. Sphinx

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA multi-model DBMS and application serverExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.graphengine.iowww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheobjectbox.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.intersystems.comdocs.objectbox.iosphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerMicrosoftInterSystemsObjectBox LimitedSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20052010199720172001
Current release3.3.3, December 20232018.1.4, May 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlang.NET and CC and C++C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
.NETAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyesyesnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioningnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyesno
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