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DBMS > CouchDB vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Infobright

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Infobright

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablehugegraph.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerBaiduIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.
Initial release2005201820102005
Current release3.3.3, December 20230.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageErlangJavaErlangC
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used instead
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptasynchronous Gremlin script jobsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesvia hugegraph-sparkyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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