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System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Redis

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Name

Description

JSON-based document store derived from CouchDB with a Memcached-compatible interface

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

In-memory data structure store, used as database, cache and message broker info

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store info

Multiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence

Secondary database models

Key-value store info

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol

Document store info

with Redis Modules
Graph DBMS info

with Redis Modules
Search engine info

with Redis Modules
Time Series DBMS info

with Redis Modules

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Score	30.55
Rank	#26	Overall
	#4	Document stores

Score	16.85
Rank	#36	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	155.42
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Website

www.couchbase.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

redis.io

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

redis.io/documentation

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Salvatore Sanfilippo info

Development sponsored by Redis Labs

Initial release

2011

2012

2009

Current release

Server: 6.5, January 2020; Mobile: 2.7, January 2020; Couchbase Autonomous Operator: 1.2, May 2019

6.0.9, October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

Apache version 2; Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Open Source info

BSD 3-Clause, commercial license available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows info

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Boolean, Number

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

XML support info

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

with RediSearch module

SQL

Support of SQL

Declarative query language (N1QL) that extends ANSI SQL to JSON. First commercial implementation of SQL++.

APIs and other access methods

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

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol info

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Clojure
ColdFusion
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript info

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Tcl

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Lua

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication info

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication info

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication info

Chained replication is supported

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

selectable on a per-operation basis

Eventual Consistency info

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency info

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

yes

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts info

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Simple password-based access control info

Access control lists and SSL are available in the commercial version

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Specific characteristics

Developed as an alternative to traditionally inflexible relational databases, Couchbase...
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Competitive advantages

Couchbase was architected with several differentiated capabilities: Shared-nothing,...
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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

The Community Edition (CE) of Couchbase Server and Couchbase Mobile are available...
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