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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. SAP IQ vs. searchxml vs. SWC-DB

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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.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	7.46
Rank	#51	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

couchdb.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

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

SAP, formerly Sybase

informationpartners gmbh

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2005

1994

2015

2020

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

1.0

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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