DBMS > Couchbase vs. Hazelcast vs. Manticore Search vs. NuoDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Hazelcast vs. Manticore Search vs. NuoDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

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

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

www.couchbase.com

hazelcast.com

manticoresearch.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

doc.nuodb.com

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Hazelcast

Manticore Software

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Percona

Initial release

2011

2008

2017

2013

2015

Current release

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

5.3.6, November 2023

6.0, February 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

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

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

Java, SQL

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica 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 or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

Temporary table

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

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

Role-based access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Access rights for users and roles

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