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DBMS > CouchDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeKey-value storeSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgboilerbay.comwww.memcached.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchrocksdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stableboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikilearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerBoiler Bay Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoftFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20052002200320152013
Current release3.3.3, December 20234.01.6.27, May 2024V19.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageErlangJavaCC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysnoyesno
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 viewsno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Java.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnononono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0nonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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