DBMS > Couchbase vs. EXASOL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. EXASOL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB

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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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.exasol.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sadasengine.com

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

www.exasol.com/resources

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Exasol

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SADAS s.r.l.

Cesbit

Initial release

2011

2000

1984

2006

2017

Current release

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

7.4.1.1, 2021

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

HP Open VMS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

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

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

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

simple rights management via user accounts

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