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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP IQ vs. SingleStore

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latesthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerPerconaOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSAP, formerly SybaseSingleStore Inc.
Initial release20052015200919942013
Current release3.3.3, December 20233.4.10-2.10, November 20173.2.0, December 202216.1 SPS04, April 20198.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialcommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ErlangC++, Go
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIproprietary protocol using JSONHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptJavaScriptErlangyesyes
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factorSAP/Sybase Replication ServerSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesHadoop integrationno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovia In-Memory Enginenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and rolesyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"Percona Server for MongoDBRiak KVSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
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