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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. PouchDB vs. RDFox vs. SwayDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgopentsdb.netpouchdb.comwww.oxfordsemantic.techswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stableopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsApache Software FoundationOxford Semantic TechnologiesSimer Plaha
Initial release20052011201220172018
Current release3.3.3, December 20237.1.1, June 20196.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoLGPLOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaJavaScriptC++Scala
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsnoyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScriptC
Java
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding infobased on HBaseSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
replication via a shared file systemnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenonoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenonoRoles, resources, and access typesno

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