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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Couchbase vs. FoundationDB vs. PouchDB vs. TDengine

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsA distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeTime Series 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
Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score16.59
Rank#36  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.couchbase.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbpouchdb.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.couchbase.comapple.github.io/­foundationdbpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Couchbase, Inc.FoundationDBApache Software FoundationTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20122011201320122019
Current releaseServer: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 20236.2.28, November 20207.1.1, June 20193.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC, C++, Go and ErlangC++JavaScriptC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infosome layers support typingnoyes
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 indexesrestrictedyesnoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casessupported in specific SQL layer onlynoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PythonFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++in SQL-layer onlyView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyes infovia the TAP protocolnoyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic ShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Linearizable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoEphemeral bucketsyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.nonoyes
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Amazon RedshiftCouchbase infoOriginally called MembaseFoundationDBPouchDBTDengine
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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