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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. XTDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSpatial extension of SQLiteA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlorigodb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stableorigodb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerHughes TechnologiesRobert Friberg et alAlessandro FurieriJuxt Ltd.
Initial release200519942009 infounder the name LiveDB20082019
Current release3.3.3, December 20234.4, October 20215.0.0, August 20201.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangCC#C++Clojure
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-lessAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.NetClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoyesnono
Triggersyesnoyes infoDomain Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0nonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replicationnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingnoyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoRole based authorizationno

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