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DBMS > CouchDB vs. etcd vs. Graphite vs. Machbase Neo vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. etcd vs. Graphite vs. Machbase Neo vs. PouchDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A distributed reliable key-value storeData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.26
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score7.64
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#324  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
github.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webmachbase.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stableetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
graphite.readthedocs.iomachbase.com/­dbmspouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerChris DavisMachbaseApache Software Foundation
Initial release2005200620132012
Current release3.3.3, December 20233.4, August 2019V8.0, August 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangGoPythonCJavaScript
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoNumeric data onlyyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnonoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
JSON over HTTP
HTTP API
Sockets
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnononoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes, watching key changesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.noneselectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenonosimple password-based access controlno

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