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DBMS > Couchbase vs. Machbase Neo vs. MySQL vs. SQLite vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Machbase Neo vs. MySQL vs. SQLite vs. Trafodion

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NameCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataWidely used open source RDBMSWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store infooriginating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score18.46
Rank#36  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#324  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1087.72
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score116.01
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.couchbase.commachbase.comwww.mysql.comwww.sqlite.orgtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.couchbase.commachbase.com/­dbmsdev.mysql.com/­docwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperCouchbase, Inc.MachbaseOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunDwayne Richard HippApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20112013199520002014
Current releaseServer: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023V8.0, August 20238.3.0, January 20243.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availablecommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, Go and ErlangCC and C++CC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lessLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++noyes infoproprietary syntaxnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes infovia the TAP protocolnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic ShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoEphemeral bucketsyes infovolatile and lookup tableyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.simple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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