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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. jBASE vs. JSqlDb vs. Kinetica

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.26
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score2.10
Rank#126  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score1.43
Rank#160  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasejsqldb.org (offline)www.kinetica.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.heavy.aidocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.kinetica.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerHEAVY.AI, Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Konrad von BackstromKinetica
Initial release20052016199120182012
Current release3.3.3, December 20235.10, January 20225.70.8, December 20187.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ and CUDAC, C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionalnoyes
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 viewsnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScriptC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoyesfunctions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding infoRound robinShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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