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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Couchbase vs. IRONdb vs. Kdb vs. NuoDB

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceA distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityHigh performance Time Series DBMSNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store infooriginating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.80
Rank#148  Overall
#25  Document stores
Score19.15
Rank#36  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score7.69
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.couchbase.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/kx.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.couchbase.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedcode.kx.comdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperCouchbase, Inc.Circonus LLC.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release2019201120172000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032013
Current releaseServer: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023V0.10.20, January 20183.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availablecommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, Go and ErlangC and C++qC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language (q)yes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
HTTP APIHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++yes, in Luauser defined functionsJava, SQL
Triggersnoyes infovia the TAP protocolnoyes infowith viewsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic ShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioningdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDnonoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC
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.yes infoEphemeral bucketsnoyesyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.norights management via user accountsStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users
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Amazon DocumentDBCouchbase infoOriginally called MembaseIRONdbKdbNuoDB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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