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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. ScyllaDB vs. Sphinx

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Serverless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionKey-value store
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Score10.26
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score4.67
Rank#77  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score5.27
Rank#67  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitecouchdb.apache.orghyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.scylladb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.scylladb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerHyprcubd, Inc.Actian CorporationScyllaDBSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20051974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20152001
Current release3.3.3, December 202311.2, May 2022ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangGoCC++C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnoyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
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
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoyesyes, Luano
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres Replicatorselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingnoyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasetoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per objectno
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"HyprcubdIngresScyllaDBSphinx
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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