DBMS > Couchbase vs. Geode vs. H2 vs. Hypertable vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Geode vs. H2 vs. Hypertable vs. MonetDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

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

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

geode.apache.org/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Thomas Mueller

Hypertable Inc.

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2011

2002

2005

2009

2004

Current release

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

1.1, February 2017

2.2.220, July 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

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

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

Java

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

none

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

Eventual Consistency

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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