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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Quasardb vs. TigerGraph vs. ToroDB vs. YottaDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgquasar.aiwww.tigergraph.comgithub.com/­torodb/­serveryottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.tigergraph.comyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerquasardb8KdataYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20052009201720162001
Current release3.3.3, December 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C++JavaC
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VMDocker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infointeger and binaryyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idno
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 viewsyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (GSQL)by using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Java
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyeswith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and rolesUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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