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DBMS > CouchDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. QuestDB vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. QuestDB vs. YTsaurus

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  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 databaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#54  Document stores
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#323  Overall
#44  Document stores
#47  Key-value stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgorigodb.comwww.postgres-xl.orgquestdb.ioytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stableorigodb.com/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationquestdb.io/­docsytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerRobert Friberg et alQuestDB Technology IncYandex
Initial release20052009 infounder the name LiveDB2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20142023
Current release3.3.3, December 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC#CJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Ubuntu
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyesyes
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 .NETyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL with time-series extensionsYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
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
.Net.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes infoDomain Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedhorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynodepending on modelyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACID infoMVCCACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based authorizationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists
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