DBMS > Couchbase vs. HugeGraph vs. IRONdb vs. Oracle Coherence vs. ReductStore

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. HugeGraph vs. IRONdb vs. Oracle Coherence vs. ReductStore

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Name

IRONdb 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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

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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Trend Chart

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.reduct.store/docs

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Baidu

Circonus LLC.

Oracle

ReductStore LLC

Initial release

2011

2018

2017

2007

2023

Current release

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

0.9

V0.10.20, January 2018

14.1, August 2023

1.9, March 2024

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

Business Source License 1.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

C and C++

Java

C++, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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.

Users, roles and permissions

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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