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DBMS > CouchDB vs. SpaceTime vs. SQream DB vs. Yanza vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. SpaceTime vs. SQream DB vs. Yanza vs. YugabyteDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza 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.SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTime Series DBMS for IoT ApplicationsHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetimesqream.comyanza.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.sqream.comdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerMireoSQream TechnologiesYanzaYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20052020201720152017
Current release3.3.3, December 20232022.1.6, December 20222.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialcommercial infofree version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanzano
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Implementation languageErlangC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxWindowsLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesnoyes
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 viewsnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyesnoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#
C++
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
any language that supports HTTP callsC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnouser defined functions in Pythonnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyesnonoyes infoTimer and event basedyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Fixed-grid hypercubeshorizontal and vertical partitioningnoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Real-time block device replication (DRBD)nonenoneBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACIDnoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
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 databaseyesnoyes
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"SpaceTimeSQream DBYanzaYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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