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System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Dgraph vs. IRONdb vs. NuoDB vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

A distributed document store with a powerful search engine and in-built operational and analytical capabilities

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

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

Time Series DBMS

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Score	28.78
Rank	#30	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1.57
Rank	#141	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#356	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#178	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.09
Rank	#169	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

dgraph.io

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database

nuodb.com

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

dgraph.io/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb

doc.nuodb.com

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Circonus LLC.

NuoDB, Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2011

2016

2017

2013

2017

Current release

Server: 7.0, July 2021; Mobile: 3, February 2022; Couchbase Capella, October 2021

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2; Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Couchbase Capella: a fully managed database-as-a-service that eliminates database management efforts and reduces cost

Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Boolean, Number

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Declarative query language (N1QL) that extends ANSI SQL to JSON. First commercial implementation of SQL++.

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript

yes, in Lua

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication via Raft

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication

Planned for future releases

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

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Specific characteristics

Developed as an alternative to traditionally inflexible relational databases, Couchbase...
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Competitive advantages

Couchbase was architected with several differentiated capabilities: Shared-nothing,...
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Typical application scenarios

Customer 360 for user profile, session store and data aggregation (Comcast, Equifax,...
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Key customers

Amadeus, AT&T, BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), Carrefour, Cisco, Comcast, Disney,...
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Market metrics

Named a leader in the Forrester Wave™: Big Data NoSQL, Q1 2019 Over 10M downloads...
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Licensing and pricing models

The Community Edition (CE) of Couchbase Server and Couchbase Mobile are available...
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