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System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. DolphinDB vs. FatDB vs. Infobright vs. Speedb

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#310	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.dolphindb.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.speedb.io

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

DolphinDB, Inc

FatCloud

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Speedb

Initial release

2011

2018

2012

2005

2020

Current release

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

v2.00.4, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

free community version available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

Via inetgration in SQL Server

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
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

yes

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.

Administrators, Users, Groups

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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