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Name

Description

A distributed document store with a powerful search engine and in-built operational and analytical capabilities

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	23.75
Rank	#30	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	35.08
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#350	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.couchbase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/Terark/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

github.com/Terark/terarkdb/wiki

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Microsoft

Terark

Initial release

2011

2014

2016

Current release

Server: 7.0, July 2021; Mobile: 3, February 2022; Couchbase Capella, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2; Commercial licenses also available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Boolean, Number

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

Declarative query language (N1QL) that extends ANSI SQL to JSON. First commercial implementation of SQL++.

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Developed as an alternative to traditionally inflexible relational databases, Couchbase...
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Competitive advantages

Couchbase was architected with several differentiated capabilities: Shared-nothing,...
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Typical application scenarios

Customer 360 for user profile, session store and data aggregation (Comcast, Equifax,...
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Key customers

Amadeus, AT&T, BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), Carrefour, Cisco, Comcast, Disney,...
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Market metrics

Named a leader in the Forrester Wave™: Big Data NoSQL, Q1 2019 Over 10M downloads...
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Licensing and pricing models

The Community Edition (CE) of Couchbase Server and Couchbase Mobile are available...
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