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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PostGIS

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerApplication development environment with integrated database management systemOracles in-memory data grid solutionSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.progress.com/­openedgewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencepostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencepostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerMicrosoftProgress Software CorporationOracle
Initial release20052016198420072005
Current release3.3.3, December 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 202014.1, August 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++JavaC
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
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#
Java
PHP
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptTransact SQLyesnouser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoLive Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Shardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACIDconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesUsers and groupsauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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