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

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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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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

using the Geocouch extension

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Score	30.76
Rank	#26	Overall
	#4	Document stores

Score	0.71
Rank	#203	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	26.46
Rank	#29	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

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

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Percona

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2011

2015

2014

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

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2; Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

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

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Boolean, Number

yes

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.

yes

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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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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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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