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DBMS > Couchbase vs. Galaxybase vs. Ingres vs. openGauss

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Galaxybase vs. Ingres vs. openGauss

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NameCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformWell established RDBMSAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score16.59
Rank#36  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.couchbase.comgalaxybase.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
Technical documentationdocs.couchbase.comdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
DeveloperCouchbase, Inc.Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Actian CorporationHuawei and openGauss community
Initial release201120171974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2019
Current releaseServer: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023Nov 20, November 202111.2, May 20223.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, Go and ErlangC and JavaCC, C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesnoyesANSI SQL 2011
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
C
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++user defined procedures and functionsyesyes
Triggersyes infovia the TAP protocolyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic ShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres ReplicatorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoEphemeral bucketsyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.Role-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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