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DBMS > CouchDB vs. SwayDB vs. TiDB vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. SwayDB vs. TiDB vs. YDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score4.09
Rank#72  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#269  Overall
#43  Document stores
#126  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgswaydb.simer.aupingcap.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stableydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerSimer PlahaPingCAP, Inc.Yandex
Initial release2005201820162019
Current release3.3.3, December 20238.2.0, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangScalaGo, Rust
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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 SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0nonehorizontal partitioning (by key range)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Active-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infowith TiSpark Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infofull support since version 6.6no
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleAtomic execution of operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"SwayDBTiDBYDB
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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