DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Couchbase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenTSDB vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Couchbase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenTSDB vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.couchbase.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Couchbase, Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Teradata

Initial release

2016

2011

2010

2011

2005

Current release

1703

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

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

R packages

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

LDAP bind authentication

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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