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System Properties Comparison Apache Ignite vs. Couchbase vs. gStore

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NameApache Ignite  Xexclude from comparisonCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
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
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.10
Rank#82  Overall
#12  Key-value stores
#43  Relational DBMS
Score14.04
Rank#38  Overall
#5  Document stores
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#373  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
#20  RDF stores
Websiteignite.apache.orgwww.couchbase.comen.gstore.cn
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.couchbase.comen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCouchbase, Inc.
Initial release201520112016
Current release2.16.0, December 2023Server: 7.6, March 2024; Mobile: 3.3, August 2024; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), September 20241.2, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availableOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetC, C++, Go and ErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesno
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++yes
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infovia the TAP protocol
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoEphemeral bucketsno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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