DBMS > Altibase vs. CouchDB vs. Raima Database Manager vs. SAP HANA vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. CouchDB vs. Raima Database Manager vs. SAP HANA vs. ScyllaDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#121	Relational DBMS
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

altibase.com

couchdb.apache.org

raima.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.raima.com

help.sap.com/hana

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Raima Inc.

SAP

ScyllaDB

Initial release

1999

2005

1984

2010

2015

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.3.3, December 2023

15, June 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

SQLScript, R

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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