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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. OpenEdge vs. OrigoDB vs. QuestDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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.Application development environment with integrated database management systemA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.progress.com/­openedgeorigodb.comquestdb.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestorigodb.com/­docsquestdb.io/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerProgress Software CorporationRobert Friberg et alQuestDB Technology IncAlessandro Furieri
Initial release200519842009 infounder the name LiveDB20142008
Current release3.3.3, December 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 20205.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC#Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less
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 .NETnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).NetC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyesyesnono
Triggersyesyesyes infoDomain Eventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4horizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual 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
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.nonoyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers and groupsRole based authorizationno
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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