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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. OrigoDB vs. SQL.JS vs. Tarantool

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  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 databasePort of SQLite to JavaScriptIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgorigodb.comsql.js.orgwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stableorigodb.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerRobert Friberg et alAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersVK
Initial release20052009 infounder the name LiveDB20122008
Current release3.3.3, December 20232.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangC#JavaScriptC and C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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 .NETnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
JavaScript APIOpen binary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.NetJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyesnoLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersyesyes infoDomain Eventsnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednoneSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnoneAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynodepending on modelyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoWrite ahead logno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based authorizationnoAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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