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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. PouchDB vs. TDengine

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Document storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score27.71
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.progress.com/­marklogicazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbpouchdb.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerMarkLogic Corp.MicrosoftApache Software FoundationTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20052001201420122019
Current release3.3.3, December 202311.0, December 20227.1.1, June 20193.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangC++JavaScriptC
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoJSON typesnoyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL92SQL-like query languagenoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptJavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
TriggersyesyesJavaScriptyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobswith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*yes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, with Range Indexesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"MarkLogicMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDBPouchDBTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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