DBMS > Couchbase vs. Riak TS vs. Teradata vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Riak TS vs. Teradata vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.teradata.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.teradata.com

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Teradata

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2011

2015

1984

1999

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

hosted
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

yes, limited

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

Erlang

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

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

User concepts

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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