DBMS > atoti vs. Couchbase vs. eXtremeDB vs. InfluxDB vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Couchbase vs. eXtremeDB vs. InfluxDB vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series 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

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

atoti.io

www.couchbase.com

www.mcobject.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

docs.couchbase.com

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

ActiveViam

Couchbase, Inc.

McObject

Initial release

2011

2001

2013

2017

Current release

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

8.2, 2021

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C and C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

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

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

SQL-like query language

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

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

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

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

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Automatic Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

Depending on used storage engine

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

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