DBMS > atoti vs. Couchbase vs. EXASOL vs. InfluxDB vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Couchbase vs. EXASOL vs. InfluxDB vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

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

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	0.59
Rank	#242	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	18.46
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.73
Rank	#228	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Website

atoti.io

www.couchbase.com

www.exasol.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

docs.couchbase.com

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.sqream.com

Developer

ActiveViam

Couchbase, Inc.

Exasol

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2011

2000

2013

2017

Current release

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

2.7.5, January 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

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

yes

SQL-like query language

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

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

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

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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