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Name

Description

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Document store

RDF store

Secondary database models

Key-value store info

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol

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Score	30.60
Rank	#26	Overall
	#4	Document stores

Score	0.55
Rank	#219	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.couchbase.com

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2011

2004

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

Open Source info

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Boolean, Number

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

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

Java API
RIO info

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL info

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Clojure
ColdFusion
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript info

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Tcl

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication info

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts info

Access control

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

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Specific characteristics

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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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