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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. QuestDB vs. RethinkDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.A high performance open source SQL database for time series dataDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.10
Rank#119  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgorigodb.comwww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-serverquestdb.iorethinkdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stableorigodb.com/­docswww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATESTquestdb.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerRobert Friberg et alPerconaQuestDB Technology IncThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20052009 infounder the name LiveDB200820142009
Current release3.3.3, December 20238.0.36-28, 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC#C and C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nono infocan be achieved using .NETyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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
.NetAda
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyesyesno
Triggersyesyes infoDomain EventsyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
Source-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynodepending on modelyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACIDACID for single-table writesAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based authorizationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes infousers and table-level permissions
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"OrigoDBPercona Server for MySQLQuestDBRethinkDB
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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