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System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Graphite vs. HyperSQL vs. jBASE vs. Tkrzw

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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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

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

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.couchbase.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

hsqldb.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

graphite.readthedocs.io

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Chris Davis

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2011

2006

2001

1991

2020

Current release

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

2.7.2, June 2023

5.7

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

optional

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

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

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

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

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

none

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

locking

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

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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