DBMS > Couchbase vs. H2GIS vs. MonetDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. H2GIS vs. MonetDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server 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

Spatial extension of H2

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Relational 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

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.h2gis.org

www.monetdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

CNRS

MonetDB BV

SAP, Sybase

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2011

2013

2004

1987

1993

Current release

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

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

based on H2

yes, in SQL, C, R

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

none

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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

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

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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