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DBMS > CouchDB vs. Riak TS vs. SiteWhere vs. TimescaleDB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Riak TS vs. SiteWhere vs. TimescaleDB vs. ToroDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  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.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
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Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.timescale.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSiteWhereTimescale8Kdata
Initial release20052015201020172016
Current release3.3.3, December 20233.0.0, September 20222.13.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangErlangJavaCJava
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsrestrictednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, limitednoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
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
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptErlanguser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingSharding infobased on HBaseyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between datasets can be storednoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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