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System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Dolt vs. Fauna vs. InfluxDB vs. STSdb

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NameCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
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 storeSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score16.59
Rank#36  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score1.02
Rank#191  Overall
#89  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.couchbase.comgithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
fauna.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.couchbase.comdocs.dolthub.comdocs.fauna.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperCouchbase, Inc.DoltHub IncFauna, Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release20112018201420132011
Current releaseServer: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 20232.7.6, April 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++, Go and ErlangGoScalaGoC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoNumeric data and Stringsyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesyesnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
CLI Client
HTTP REST
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
JSON over UDP
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
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
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++yes infocurrently in alpha releaseuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyes infovia the TAP protocolyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic Shardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
A 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 replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoEphemeral bucketsnoyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupIdentity management, authentication, and access controlsimple rights management via user accountsno
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Couchbase infoOriginally called MembaseDoltFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBInfluxDBSTSdb
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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