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DBMS > Couchbase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenQM vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenQM vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

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NameCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineMultivalue DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
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
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score16.59
Rank#36  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.couchbase.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmrocksdb.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.couchbase.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperCouchbase, Inc.MicrosoftRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsFacebook, Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release20112015199320132018
Current releaseServer: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023V13.4-129.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++, Go and ErlangC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infowith some exceptionsschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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 indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesnononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++noyesnono
Triggersyes infovia the TAP protocolnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic ShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyeshorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyesAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoEphemeral bucketsnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.yes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnono

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