DBMS > Couchbase vs. ITTIA vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. ITTIA vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PouchDB

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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

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

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

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.ittia.com

opentsdb.net

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

ITTIA L.L.C.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2011

2007

2011

1984

2012

Current release

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

8.7

7.4.1.1, 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C and C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

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

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

via views

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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.

Database file passwords

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