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System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. HarperDB vs. Memgraph vs. PouchDB vs. RRDtool

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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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

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

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Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

docs.harperdb.io/docs

memgraph.com/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Social network pages

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

HarperDB

Memgraph Ltd

Apache Software Foundation

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2011

2017

2012

1999

Current release

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

3.1, August 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

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

Node.js

C and C++

JavaScript

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

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

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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.

Access rights for users and roles

Users, roles and permissions

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