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System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. GreptimeDB vs. JaguarDB

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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

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Document store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

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
Wide column store

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Score	16.01
Rank	#35	Overall
	#5	Document stores
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#336	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#18	Vector DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

greptime.com

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

docs.greptime.com

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Greptime Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2011

2022

2015

Current release

Server: 7.6, March 2024; Mobile: 3.3, August 2024; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), September 2024

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

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

Rust

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Python

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

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

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

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

rights management via user accounts

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