DBMS > CouchDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. MaxDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. MaxDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Document store

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

couchdb.apache.org

www.eventstore.com

maxdb.sap.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

developers.eventstore.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

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

Event Store Limited

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

SAP

Splice Machine

Initial release

2005

2012

1984

2010

2014

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

21.2, February 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, 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

Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Solaris
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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

yes

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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 can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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

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