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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  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 CPUsDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.progress.com/­openedgewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.kinetica.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerKineticaMicrosoftProgress Software CorporationOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release20052012201019841984
Current release3.3.3, December 20237.1, August 2021V12OpenEdge 12.2, March 20207.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangC, C++C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
HP Open VMS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
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.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes infoclose to SQL 92yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
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
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsTransact SQLyes
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Shardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replication
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 configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACIDACIDyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups

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