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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. Rockset vs. Transbase

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.In-memory JavaScript DBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.orgrockset.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabletechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.rockset.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerMonetDB BVRocksetTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20052014200420191987
Current release3.3.3, December 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageErlangJavaScriptCC++C and C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesdynamic typingyes
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyes infovia viewsyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Rnoyes
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneSharding via remote tablesAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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