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DBMS > CouchDB vs. Interbase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Titan vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Interbase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Titan vs. YTsaurus

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
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 BorlandBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Spatial 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
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#340  Overall
#45  Document stores
#50  Key-value stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikiytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerEmbarcaderoAurelius, owned by DataStaxYandex
Initial release200519842014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20122023
Current release3.3.3, December 2023InterBase 2020, December 201910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangCCJavaC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Ubuntu
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 possibleyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
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
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0nonehorizontal partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Interbase Change Viewsyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACID infoMVCCACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
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-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess Control Lists

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