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Name

Description

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

couchdb.apache.org

www.monetdb.org

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

MonetDB BV

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2005

2004

2020

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.5, January 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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