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System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Datomic vs. Dolt vs. JaguarDB vs. MySQL

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NameCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsWidely used open source RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached API
Secondary database modelsKey-value store infooriginating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score17.30
Rank#36  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score1083.74
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.couchbase.comwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
www.jaguardb.comwww.mysql.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchbase.comdocs.datomic.comdocs.dolthub.comwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldev.mysql.com/­doc
DeveloperCouchbase, Inc.CognitectDoltHub IncDataJaguar, Inc.Oracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun
Initial release20112012201820151995
Current releaseServer: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 20231.0.6735, June 20233.3 July 20238.4.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, Go and ErlangJava, ClojureGoC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP APICLI Client
HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++yes infoTransaction Functionsyes infocurrently in alpha releasenoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes infovia the TAP protocolBy using transaction functionsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic Shardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.Multi-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoEphemeral bucketsyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.noOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startuprights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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