DBMS > Couchbase vs. GBase vs. Immudb vs. KairosDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. GBase vs. Immudb vs. KairosDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

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

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.gbase.cn

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

docs.immudb.io

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Codenotary

Yanza

Initial release

2011

2004

2020

2013

2015

Current release

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

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.2.3, April 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like syntax

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
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

User concepts

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

yes

simple password-based access control

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