DBMS > Couchbase vs. EsgynDB vs. JaguarDB vs. Yaacomo vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. EsgynDB vs. JaguarDB vs. Yaacomo vs. YottaDB

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

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

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Esgyn

DataJaguar, Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2011

2015

2009

2001

Current release

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

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++, Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

by using the Octo plugin

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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