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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. InfinityDB vs. MySQL vs. OrientDB vs. searchxml

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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 interfaceWidely used open source RDBMSMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Native XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score1061.34
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgboilerbay.comwww.mysql.comorientdb.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stableboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdev.mysql.com/­docwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerBoiler Bay Inc.Oracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20052002199520102015
Current release3.3.3, December 20234.08.4.0, April 20243.2.29, March 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language, no joinsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
JavaAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoyes infoproprietary syntaxJava, Javascriptyes infoon the application server
TriggersyesnoyesHooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0nonehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes inforelationship in graphsno
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 loadsACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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