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DBMS > CouchDB vs. Lovefield vs. Riak TS vs. searchxml vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Lovefield vs. Riak TS vs. searchxml vs. SiriDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssiridb.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGoogleOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologiesinformationpartners gmbhCesbit
Initial release20052014201520152017
Current release3.3.3, December 20232.1.12, February 20173.0.0, September 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaScriptErlangC++C
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes infoNumeric data
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes, limitednono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoErlangyes infoon the application serverno
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneselectable replication factoryes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infolinks between datasets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDnomultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDBnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenonoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicessimple rights management via user accounts

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