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

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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.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	7.46
Rank	#51	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

pouchdb.com/guides

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

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

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Simer Plaha

Yandex

Initial release

2005

2011

2012

2018

2023

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

JavaScript

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

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

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Access Control Lists

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