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DBMS > Couchbase vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PostGIS vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PostGIS vs. SQL.JS

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NameCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Microsofts flagship relational DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial 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
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score17.30
Rank#36  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.couchbase.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverpostgis.netsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.couchbase.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverpostgis.net/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperCouchbase, Inc.CCRi and othersMicrosoftAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20112014198920052012
Current releaseServer: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 20234.0.5, February 2024SQL Server 2022, November 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, Go and ErlangScalaC++CJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesnoyesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++noTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javauser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infovia the TAP protocolnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic Shardingdepending on storage layertables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
depending on storage layeryes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
depending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoEphemeral bucketsdepending on storage layeryesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.yes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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