DBMS > Couchbase vs. EXASOL vs. GridDB vs. jBASE vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. EXASOL vs. GridDB vs. jBASE vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

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
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.74
Rank	#33	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.exasol.com

griddb.net

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.griddb.net

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Exasol

Toshiba Corporation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2011

2000

2013

1991

2017

Current release

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

5.1, August 2022

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

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

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

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 within container, eventual consistency across containers

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at container level

ACID

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.

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role-based access control

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