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DBMS > CouchDB vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Vitess

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchvitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablegraphite.readthedocs.iokairosdb.github.iolearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerChris DavisMicrosoftThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20052006201320152013
Current release3.3.3, December 20231.2.2, November 2018V115.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageErlangPythonJavaGo
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Sockets
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnononoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenononoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes infolockingyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenosimple password-based access controlyes infousing Azure authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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