DBMS > Couchbase vs. eXtremeDB vs. Interbase vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. eXtremeDB vs. Interbase vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL

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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

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational 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

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Score	16.74
Rank	#33	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#100	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#250	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	2.06
Rank	#118	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.mcobject.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

McObject

Embarcadero

Percona

Initial release

2011

2001

1984

2015

2008

Current release

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

8.2, 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

8.0.36-28, 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

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

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

support of XML interfaces available

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

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

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

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

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

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
Immediate Consistency

Immediate 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

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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