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System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SurrealDB

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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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph 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	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

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

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

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

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2011

2013

1984

2022

Current release

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

2.7.6, April 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

HP Open VMS

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes

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

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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