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System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Redis

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Name

Description

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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

In-memory data structure store, used as database, cache and message broker

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Multiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol

Document store

with Redis Modules
Graph DBMS

with Redis Modules
Search engine

with Redis Modules
Time Series DBMS

with Redis Modules

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Score	31.00
Rank	#26	Overall
	#4	Document stores

Score	0.70
Rank	#204	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	154.15
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.percona.com/software/mongodb/percona-server-for-mongodb

redis.io

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

www.percona.com/doc/percona-server-for-mongodb/LATEST/index.html

redis.io/documentation

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Percona

Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Labs

Initial release

2011

2015

2009

Current release

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

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

6.2.0 , February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2; Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

BSD 3-Clause, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

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

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Boolean, Number

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

with RediSearch module

SQL

Support of SQL

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

APIs and other access methods

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Clojure
ColdFusion
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Tcl

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript

JavaScript

Lua

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles

Simple password-based access control

Access control lists and SSL are available in the commercial version

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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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Redis is an in-memory database platform offering native support of wide range of...
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Typical application scenarios

Customer 360 for user profile, session store and data aggregation (Comcast, Equifax,...
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Redis powers personalization, real-time fraud detection, IoT, e-commerce, real-time...
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Key customers

Amadeus, AT&T, BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), Carrefour, Cisco, Comcast, Disney,...
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Verizon, Vodafone, Atlassian, Trip Advisor, Jet.com, Nokia, Samsung, HTC, Docker,...
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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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