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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Kinetica vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. SingleStore

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  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 CPUsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.26
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.69
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score5.91
Rank#61  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.postgres-xl.orgquasar.aiwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.kinetica.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerKineticaquasardbSingleStore Inc.
Initial release200520122014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20092013
Current release3.3.3, December 20237.1, August 202110 R1, October 20183.14.1, January 20248.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC, C++CC++C++, Go
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query languageyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP APICluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
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
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Shardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonowith Hadoop integrationno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACID infoMVCCACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
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 infoTransient modeyes
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-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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