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System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. NuoDB

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Name

Description

JSON-based document store derived from CouchDB with a Memcached-compatible interface

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store info

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol

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Score	29.14
Rank	#25	Overall
	#4	Document stores

Score	1.05
Rank	#149	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.nuodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2011

2013

Current release

Server: 6.5, January 2020; Mobile: 2.7, January 2020; Couchbase Autonomous Operator: 1.2, May 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

Apache version 2; Commercial licenses also available

commercial info

limited edition free

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Boolean, Number

yes

XML support info

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Clojure
ColdFusion
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript info

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Master-master replication info

including cross data center replication
Master-slave replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

Temporary table

User concepts info

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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Specific characteristics

Developed as an alternative to traditionally inflexible relational databases, Couchbase...
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Horizontal scale-out, continuous availability, multi-tenant support, ANSI SQL compatible,...
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Competitive advantages

Couchbase was architected with several differentiated capabilities: Shared-nothing,...
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NuoDB is a scale-out SQL RDBMS based on a Durable Distributed Caching (DDC) architecture....
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Typical application scenarios

Customer 360 for user profile, session store and data aggregation (Comcast, Equifax,...
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Operational / OLTP database workloads in data centers or public clouds
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Key customers

Amadeus, AT&T, BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), Carrefour, Cisco, Comcast, Disney,...
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Dassault Systemes, Santander, Temenos
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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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Fast growing commercial and enterprise customer base IDC Innovators: Dynamically...
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Licensing and pricing models

The Community Edition (CE) of Couchbase Server and Couchbase Mobile are available...
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Subscription-based pricing with free community edition and commercial enterprise...
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