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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Interbase vs. LeanXcale vs. Linter vs. Machbase Neo

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  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 highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesRDBMS for high security requirementsTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.leanxcale.comlinter.rumachbase.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerEmbarcaderoLeanXcalerelex.ruMachbase
Initial release20051984201519902013
Current release3.3.3, December 2023InterBase 2020, December 2019V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree test version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangCC and C++C
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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.nono infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infothrough Apache DerbyyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
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
C
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0nonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Interbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor
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 integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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