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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. CockroachDB vs. Couchbase vs. Memcached

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

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	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

druid.apache.org

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.couchbase.com

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.couchbase.com

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Cockroach Labs

Couchbase, Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2012

2015

2011

2003

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

23.1.1, May 2023

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

1.6.25, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

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

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

dynamic schema

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC

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

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

Automatic Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Role-based access control

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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