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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Manticore Search vs. PouchDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineDocument storeRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgmanticoresearch.compouchdb.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablemanual.manticoresearch.compouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerManticore SoftwareApache Software FoundationTeradataRocket Software
Initial release20052017201220051985
Current release3.3.3, December 20236.0, February 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++JavaScriptC
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemaschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannoyesoptional
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.noCan index from XMLnoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptR packagesyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera libraryMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACIDACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
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 databasenonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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