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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Memgraph vs. TerminusDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  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.A 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 Neo4jScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
RDF store
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Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irismemgraph.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsmemgraph.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerInterSystemsMemgraph LtdDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2005201820172018
Current release3.3.3, December 20232023.3, June 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangC and C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
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
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyesyes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesUsers, roles and permissionsRole-based access control
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"InterSystems IRISMemgraphTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
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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