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DBMS > CouchDB vs. OrientDB vs. Pinecone vs. TigerGraph vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. OrientDB vs. Pinecone vs. TigerGraph vs. ToroDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)A managed, cloud-native vector databaseA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score3.02
Rank#88  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
Score3.02
Rank#87  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#152  Overall
#14  Graph DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgorientdb.orgwww.pinecone.iowww.tigergraph.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPPinecone Systems, Inc8Kdata
Initial release20052010201920172016
Current release3.3.3, December 20233.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)hostedLinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesString, Number, Booleanyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language, no joinsnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
PythonC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptJava, Javascriptyes
TriggersyesHooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationship in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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