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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP HANA vs. TerarkDB

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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.

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	7.46
Rank	#51	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

couchdb.apache.org

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.objectbox.io

help.sap.com/hana

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

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

ObjectBox Limited

SAP

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2005

2017

2010

2016

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

4.0 (May 2024)

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

yes

none

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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24 July 2024

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18 June 2024

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29 May 2024

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