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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. InfluxDB vs. searchxml vs. SQLite vs. TerminusDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
RDF store
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Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.sqlite.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutswww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerinformationpartners gmbhDwayne Richard HippDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20052013201520002018
Current release3.3.3, December 20232.7.6, April 20241.03.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangGoC++CProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Windowsserver-lessLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
JSON over UDP
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsActionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoyes infoon the application servernoyes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding infoin enterprise version onlynonenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenomultiple readers, single writerACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple rights management via user accountsDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesnoRole-based access control
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"InfluxDBsearchxmlSQLiteTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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