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DBMS > CouchDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. Vertica

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.85
Rank#134  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score9.62
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgjanusgraph.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.vertica.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.janusgraph.orgdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusMicrosoftOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release2005201719922005
Current release3.3.3, December 20231.0.0, October 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201912.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Clojure
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersyesyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0yes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)nonehorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnoneMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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