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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. OrigoDB vs. XTDB vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

A 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 database

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

couchdb.apache.org

origodb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

origodb.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Robert Friberg et al

Juxt Ltd.

Yandex

Initial release

2005

2009

under the name LiveDB

2019

2023

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes, extensible-data-notation format

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net

Clojure
Java

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role based authorization

Access Control Lists

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