DBMS > Couchbase vs. EsgynDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. EsgynDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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Name

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

Description

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Serverless Time Series DBMS

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

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

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.esgyn.cn

hyprcubd.com (offline)

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Esgyn

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2011

2015

2005

2010

Current release

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

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language

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

gRPC (https)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Java Stored Procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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