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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. etcd vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenQM vs. PouchDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  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 storeHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score7.05
Rank#53  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score0.01
Rank#377  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#291  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.hawkular.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmpouchdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stableetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
www.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidepouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerCommunity supported by Red HatRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsApache Software Foundation
Initial release2005201419932012
Current release3.3.3, December 20233.4, August 20193.4-127.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangGoJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesno
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnonoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
JSON over HTTP
HTTP RESTHTTP 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
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnonoyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes, watching key changesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding infobased on CassandrayesSharding 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.selectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesMulti-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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenonoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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