DBMS > Axibase vs. Couchbase vs. FeatureBase vs. Hyprcubd vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Couchbase vs. FeatureBase vs. Hyprcubd vs. Splunk

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Name

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

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

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

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Trend Chart

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.couchbase.com

www.featurebase.com

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

docs.featurebase.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Couchbase, Inc.

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

2011

2017

2003

Current release

15585

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

2022, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

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

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

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

SQL queries

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

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

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

gRPC (https)

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source 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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

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.

token access

Access rights for users and roles

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