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DBMS > CouchDB vs. H2 vs. HugeGraph vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. H2 vs. HugeGraph vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSWidely used in-process key-value storeA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerThomas MuellerBaiduOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20052005201819942018
Current release3.3.3, December 20232.2.220, July 20230.918.1.40, May 2020v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaJavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)Go
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nononoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
JavaGroovy
Java
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnono
Triggersyesyesnoyes infoonly for the SQL APIno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnovia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoedges in graphnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.noyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsno

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