DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. HBase vs. Hyprcubd vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. HBase vs. Hyprcubd vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#131	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

hbase.apache.org

hyprcubd.com (offline)

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2019

2008

2013

1992

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

gRPC (https)

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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