DBMS > Axibase vs. Couchbase vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenMLDB vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Couchbase vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenMLDB vs. OrientDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
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

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.couchbase.com

geospock.com

openmldb.ai

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Couchbase, Inc.

GeoSpock

4 Paradigm Inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2013

2011

2020

2010

Current release

15585

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

2.0, September 2019

2024-2 February 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java, Javascript

C++, Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

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

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic Sharding

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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