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DBMS > CouchDB vs. Heroic vs. Hyprcubd vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Heroic vs. Hyprcubd vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. QuestDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd 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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchServerless Time Series DBMSA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.A high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroichyprcubd.com (offline)www.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablespotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerSpotifyHyprcubd, Inc.PerconaQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2005201420152014
Current release3.3.3, December 20233.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaGoC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyes
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 viewsyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
gRPC (https)proprietary protocol using JSONHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnonoJavaScriptno
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenononoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesnoyesyes
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.nononoyes infovia In-Memory Engineyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasetoken accessAccess rights for users and roles
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"HeroicHyprcubdPercona Server for MongoDBQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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