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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. GridGain vs. Kdb vs. Rockset

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteHigh performance Time Series DBMSA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.gridgain.comkx.comrockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlcode.kx.comdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGridGain Systems, Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcRockset
Initial release200520072000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032019
Current release3.3.3, December 2023GridGain 8.5.13.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageErlangJava, C++, .NetqC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesdynamic typing
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.noyesyesno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'all fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language (q)Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infowith viewsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Shardinghorizontal partitioningAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"GridGainKdbRockset
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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