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DBMS > CouchDB vs. OceanBase vs. OrigoDB vs. QuestDB vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. OceanBase vs. OrigoDB vs. QuestDB vs. Splice Machine

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.97
Rank#119  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#54  Document stores
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#244  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgen.oceanbase.comorigodb.comquestdb.iosplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stableen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databaseorigodb.com/­docsquestdb.io/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupRobert Friberg et alQuestDB Technology IncSplice Machine
Initial release200520102009 infounder the name LiveDB20142014
Current release3.3.3, December 20234.3.0, April 20243.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoCommercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C#Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustJava
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes
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.noyesno infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
.NetC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeyesnoyes infoJava
Triggersyesyesyes infoDomain Eventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)horizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using PaxosSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesdepending on modelnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACIDACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole based authorizationAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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