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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Graphite vs. Kingbase vs. OrigoDB vs. QuestDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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 WhisperAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#19  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.kingbase.com.cnorigodb.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablegraphite.readthedocs.ioorigodb.com/­docsquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerChris DavisBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Robert Friberg et alQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2005200619992009 infounder the name LiveDB2014
Current release3.3.3, December 2023V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangPythonC and JavaC#Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesUser 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.nonoyesno infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
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
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.NetC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0nonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyesSource-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 ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesdepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACIDACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorization
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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