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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. IRONdb vs. SQL.JS

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

using the Geocouch extension

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Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

couchdb.apache.org

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

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

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

Circonus LLC.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2005

2017

2012

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

no

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.

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

no

SQL

Support of SQL

no

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

JavaScript API

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes, in Lua

no

Triggers

yes

no

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

no

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

atomic operations within a single document possible

no

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

no

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

no

no

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