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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Interbase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Memgraph vs. XTDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score11.73
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score5.51
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score3.82
Rank#91  Overall
#15  Document stores
#14  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#47  Relational DBMS
Score3.09
Rank#105  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#336  Overall
#48  Document stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irismemgraph.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsmemgraph.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerEmbarcaderoInterSystemsMemgraph LtdJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20051984201820172019
Current release3.3.3, December 2023InterBase 2020, December 20192023.3, June 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialcommercial infoFree license availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangCC and C++Clojure
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelschema-free and schema-optionalschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nono infoexport as XML data possibleyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Interbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesUsers, roles and permissions
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"InterbaseInterSystems IRISMemgraphXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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