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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.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Score	14.45
Rank	#42	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#337	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.49
Rank	#90	Overall
	#45	Relational DBMS

Website

couchdb.apache.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.circonus.com/irondb

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

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

Circonus LLC.

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2005

2017

1984

Current release

3.3.0, January 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
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
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users and groups

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Recent citations in the news

How to install the CouchDB NoSQL database on Debian Server 11
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IBM Cloudant pulls plan to fund new foundational layer for CouchDB
15 March 2022, The Register

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30 June 2022, TechRepublic

Apache CouchDB 3.0 NoSQL Database: A Major Milestone -- ADTmag
27 February 2020, ADT Magazine

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27 January 2023, The Next Platform

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