DBMS > Couchbase vs. Graphite vs. MaxDB vs. MonetDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Graphite vs. MaxDB vs. MonetDB vs. Rockset

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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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

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

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

www.couchbase.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

maxdb.sap.com

www.monetdb.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

graphite.readthedocs.io

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Chris Davis

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

MonetDB BV

Rockset

Initial release

2011

2006

1984

2004

2019

Current release

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

7.9.10.12, February 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

none

Sharding via remote tables

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

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

Eventual 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

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 for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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