DBMS > Couchbase vs. GBase vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. GBase vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP IQ

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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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.gbase.cn

ignite.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2011

2004

2015

2016

1994

Current release

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

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

Apache Ignite 2.6

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C, Java, Python

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Standard with numerous extensions

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

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
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

user defined functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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.

yes

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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