DBMS > Couchbase vs. GeoMesa vs. Milvus vs. Newts vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. GeoMesa vs. Milvus vs. Newts vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

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

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Trend Chart

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.geomesa.org

milvus.io

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

CCRi and others

OpenNMS Group

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2011

2014

2019

2014

2011

Current release

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

4.0.5, February 2024

2.3.4, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Scala

C++, Go

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

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

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

depending on storage layer

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

depending on storage layer

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

depending on storage layer

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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