DBMS > Couchbase vs. GreptimeDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. ToroDB vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. GreptimeDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. ToroDB vs. Warp 10

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

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	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

greptime.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/torodb/server

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

docs.greptime.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Greptime Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

8Kdata

SenX

Initial release

2011

2022

2010

2016

2015

Current release

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

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Rust

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

yes

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

yes

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

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Python

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic 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

User concepts

Access control

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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