DBMS > Couchbase vs. Kingbase vs. OpenEdge vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Kingbase vs. OpenEdge vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

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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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

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

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Progress Software Corporation

Alex Kashirin

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2011

1999

1984

2020

1999

Current release

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

V8.0, August 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

0.5, April 2021

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

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

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

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

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

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

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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