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DBMS > CouchDB vs. Graphite vs. searchxml vs. Teradata Aster vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Graphite vs. searchxml vs. Teradata Aster vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be 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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.07
Rank#371  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablegraphite.readthedocs.iowww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerChris Davisinformationpartners gmbhTeradataTranswarp
Initial release2005200620152005
Current release3.3.3, December 20231.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangPythonC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nonoyesyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
OpenCypher
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
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoyes infoon the application serverR packages
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0nonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenomultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes infolockingyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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