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DBMS > CouchDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. PouchDB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. PouchDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score3.07
Rank#86  Overall
#15  Document stores
#11  Key-value stores
#47  Relational DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlpouchdb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guideswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerMicrosoftOracleApache Software FoundationAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20052010201120122008
Current release3.3.3, December 2023V1224.1, May 20247.1.1, June 20195.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangC++JavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionalnoyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptTransact SQLnoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with always 3 replicas availableElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnowith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)noACID
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 infooff heap cacheyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesnono

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