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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Hyprcubd vs. NuoDB

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Name

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

Description

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Serverless Time Series DBMS

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

couchdb.apache.org

hsqldb.org

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

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

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2005

2001

2013

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (https)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

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

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

token access

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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18 April 2024, Yahoo Singapore News

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25 November 2020, Dassault Systèmes

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