DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Cachelot.io vs. Couchbase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Cachelot.io vs. Couchbase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

In-memory caching system

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

cachelot.io

www.couchbase.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.couchbase.com

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Couchbase, Inc.

Microsoft

Percona

Initial release

2012

2015

2011

2012

2015

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Memcached protocol

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Access rights for users and roles

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