DBMS > Axibase vs. Couchbase vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PouchDB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Couchbase vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PouchDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Object oriented 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	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.couchbase.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

pouchdb.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

pouchdb.com/guides

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Couchbase, Inc.

Percona

Apache Software Foundation

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2013

2011

2015

2012

Current release

15585

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

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

7.1.1, June 2019

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

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

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++

JavaScript

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

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

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

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

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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