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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. QuestDB vs. SingleStore vs. Splice Machine vs. SWC-DB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A high performance open source SQL database for time series dataMySQL 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 typeOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgquestdb.iowww.singlestore.comsplicemachine.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablequestdb.io/­docsdocs.singlestore.comsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerQuestDB Technology IncSingleStore Inc.Splice MachineAlex Kashirin
Initial release20052014201320142020
Current release3.3.3, December 20238.5, January 20243.1, March 20210.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++, GoJavaC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL with time-series extensionsyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoyesyes infoJavano
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infohash partitioningShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID for single-table writesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"QuestDBSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLSplice MachineSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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IEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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