DBMS > Couchbase vs. Drizzle vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Drizzle vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NuoDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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

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

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Trend Chart

Score	28.38
Rank	#30	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	3.47
Rank	#95	Overall
	#17	Document stores

Score	0.97
Rank	#179	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.ibm.com/cloud/cloudant

nuodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2011

2008

2010

2013

Current release

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

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2; Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Boolean, Number

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++.

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

MVCC

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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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

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