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DBMS > Couchbase vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery vs. NSDb vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery vs. NSDb vs. SwayDB

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NameCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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
Graph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score17.10
Rank#34  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#33  Document stores
#7  Object oriented DBMS
Score51.18
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#388  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.couchbase.comwww.gigaspaces.comcloud.google.com/­bigquerynsdb.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.couchbase.comdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperCouchbase, Inc.Gigaspaces TechnologiesGoogleSimer Plaha
Initial release20112000201020172018
Current releaseServer: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 202315.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++, Go and ErlangJava, C++, .NetJava, ScalaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringno
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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++yesuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptnono
Triggersyes infovia the TAP protocolyes, event driven architecturenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic ShardingShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying datanoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoEphemeral bucketsyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.Role-based access controlAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)no

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