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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PouchDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Teradata Aster

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Oracles in-memory data grid solutionJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencepouchdb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencepouchdb.com/­guidessitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerOracleApache Software FoundationSiteWhereTeradata
Initial release20052007201220102005
Current release3.3.3, December 202314.1, August 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.nonononoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnoyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoView functions in JavaScriptR packages
Triggersyesyes infoLive Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleconfigurablenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infooptionallyyes 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.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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