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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Couchbase vs. Graphite

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Name

Description

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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	0.36
Rank	#264	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	27.91
Rank	#30	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	5.50
Rank	#74	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.couchbase.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

graphite.readthedocs.io

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Couchbase, Inc.

Chris Davis

Initial release

2018

2011

2006

Current release

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

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2; Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Python

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Boolean, Number

Numeric data only

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-like query language

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

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

HTTP API
Sockets

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Functions and timers in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

yes

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

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Specific characteristics

Apache IoTDB (Internet of Things Database) is a time series data management system...
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Developed as an alternative to traditionally inflexible relational databases, Couchbase...
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Competitive advantages

Low Cost and High Performance Tens of million points write throughput High compression...
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Couchbase was architected with several differentiated capabilities: Shared-nothing,...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT / IIoT End-Edge-Cloud Collaboration Real-Time and Historian Time Series Analytics
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Customer 360 for user profile, session store and data aggregation (Comcast, Equifax,...
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Key customers

Over 200 customers worldwide, including Bosch, Siemens, Komat'su, Alibaba, etc.
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Amadeus, AT&T, BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), Carrefour, Cisco, Comcast, Disney,...
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Market metrics

185+ contributors and 10,000+ times monthly clones on GitHub Rank 7 by commits among...
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Named a leader in the Forrester Wave™: Big Data NoSQL, Q1 2019 Over 10M downloads...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source: Apache License v2.0 Pricing for commercial-/cloud-/edge-edition provided...
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The Community Edition (CE) of Couchbase Server and Couchbase Mobile are available...
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