DBMS > CouchDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. MySQL vs. openGemini vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. MySQL vs. openGemini vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Widely used open source RDBMS

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#375	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

couchdb.apache.org

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.mysql.com

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.opengemini.org/guide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

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

Kyligence, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Huawei and openGemini community

Transwarp

Initial release

2005

2016

1995

2022

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

1.1, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Administrators and common users accounts

yes

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