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DBMS > CouchDB vs. Memgraph vs. PouchDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Memgraph vs. PouchDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. YottaDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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.An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score2.91
Rank#94  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#309  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgmemgraph.compouchdb.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablememgraph.com/­docspouchdb.com/­guidesyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerMemgraph LtdApache Software FoundationTeradataYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20052017201220052001
Current release3.3.3, December 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC and C++JavaScriptC
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxDocker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-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 datenoyesnoyesno
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.nononoyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptR packages
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using RAFTMulti-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.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID infowith snapshot isolationnoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes 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.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers, roles and permissionsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms
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Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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