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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Tarantool vs. TDengine vs. Titan

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsTime Series DBMS and big data platformTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extensionRelational DBMS
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Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.tarantool.iogithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.tarantool.io/­en/­docdocs.tdengine.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerVKTDEngine, previously Taos DataAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2005200820192012
Current release3.3.3, December 20232.10.0, May 20223.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangC and C++CJava
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIOpen binary protocolJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptLua, C and SQL stored proceduresnoyes
Triggersyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsyes, via alarm monitoringyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.Shardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes, cooperative multitaskingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, write ahead loggingyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
yesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"TarantoolTDengineTitan
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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