DBMS > atoti vs. BigchainDB vs. Couchbase vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. BigchainDB vs. Couchbase vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

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

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

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

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#11	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

atoti.io

www.bigchaindb.com

www.couchbase.com

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.couchbase.com

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

ActiveViam

Couchbase, Inc.

Percona

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2011

2008

2018

Current release

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

8.0.36-28, 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

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

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

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

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

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

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Automatic Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

Journaling Streams

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

in-memory journaling

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

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Role-based access control

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