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System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. EJDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Newts vs. XTDB

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NameCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument 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
Spatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score17.30
Rank#36  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.couchbase.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewopennms.github.io/­newtsgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchbase.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCouchbase, Inc.SoftmotionsOpenNMS GroupJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20112012201320142019
Current releaseServer: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 20232.7.6, April 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availableOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, Go and ErlangCGoJavaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idNumeric data and Stringsyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesnoSQL-like query languagenolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
in-process shared libraryHTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++nononono
Triggersyes infovia the TAP protocolnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic ShardingnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
noneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, each node contains all data
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
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoEphemeral bucketsyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.nosimple rights management via user accountsno
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Couchbase infoOriginally called MembaseEJDBInfluxDBNewtsXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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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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