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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Couchbase

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

A distributed document store with a powerful search engine and in-built operational and analytical capabilities

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Score	87.26
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	28.78
Rank	#30	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.couchbase.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.couchbase.com

Developer

Amazon

Couchbase, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2011

Current release

Server: 7.0, July 2021; Mobile: 3, February 2022; Couchbase Capella, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache version 2; Commercial licenses also available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Boolean, Number

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Declarative query language (N1QL) that extends ANSI SQL to JSON. First commercial implementation of SQL++.

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

via the TAP protocol

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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