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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. gStore vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InfinityDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgen.gstore.cngithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
boilerbay.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stableen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsdocs.heavy.aiboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerHEAVY.AI, Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.Sybase, SAP
Initial release20052016201620021993
Current release3.3.3, December 20231.2, November 20235.10, January 20224.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C++ and CUDAJava
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
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 viewsnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaDelphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyesnonoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding infoRound robinnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyesnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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