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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Hive vs. Quasardb vs. QuestDB vs. RRDtool

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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 HadoopDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
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Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orghive.apache.orgquasar.aiquestdb.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablecwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedoc.quasar.ai/­masterquestdb.io/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookquasardbQuestDB Technology IncTobias Oetiker
Initial release20052012200920141999
Current release3.3.3, December 20233.1.3, April 20223.14.1, January 20241.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infointeger and binaryyesNumeric data only
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.nononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyes infowith tagsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC
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#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducewith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACIDACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and rolesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"HiveQuasardbQuestDBRRDtool
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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