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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Hive vs. NuoDB vs. OpenSearch vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Vector DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

couchdb.apache.org

hive.apache.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

doc.nuodb.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2005

2012

2013

2021

2018

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

C++

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Role-based access control

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