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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. JSqlDb vs. OrigoDB vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

couchdb.apache.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

origodb.com

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

origodb.com/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2005

2018

2009

under the name LiveDB

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

0.8, December 2018

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

JavaScript

.Net

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

functions in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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