DBMS > Couchbase vs. Cubrid vs. jBASE vs. Netezza vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Cubrid vs. jBASE vs. Netezza vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

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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Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

IBM

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2011

2008

1991

2000

2011

Current release

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

11.0, January 2021

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C, C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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