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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Access vs. Sequoiadb vs. YottaDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsMicrosoft 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.)NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.sequoiadb.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.kinetica.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerKineticaMicrosoftSequoiadb Ltd.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release20052012199220132001
Current release3.3.3, December 20237.1, August 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC, C++C++C++C
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxDocker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query languageby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
proprietary protocol using JSONPostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineJavaScript
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingDocument is locked during a transactionoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003simple password-based access controlUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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