DBMS > Couchbase vs. Derby vs. GridGain vs. Newts vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Derby vs. GridGain vs. Newts vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial 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

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

db.apache.org/derby

www.gridgain.com

opennms.github.io/newts

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

GridGain Systems, Inc.

OpenNMS Group

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2011

1997

2007

2014

2008

Current release

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

10.17.1.0, November 2023

GridGain 8.5.1

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

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

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Java Stored Procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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