DBMS > Couchbase vs. HBase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. NSDb vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. HBase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. NSDb vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

A distributed document store with a powerful search engine and in-built operational and analytical capabilities

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

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

Primary database model

Document store

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series 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

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Trend Chart

Score	28.78
Rank	#30	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	42.45
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	2.45
Rank	#118	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#22	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#357	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#357	Overall
	#155	Relational DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

hbase.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

nsdb.io

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

hbase.apache.org

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.sadasengine.com/index.php/downloads/documentation-columnar-db

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

InterSystems

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2011

2008

2018

2017

2006

Current release

Server: 7.0, July 2021; Mobile: 3, February 2022; Couchbase Capella, October 2021

2.3.4, January 2021

2021.1, June 2021

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2; Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Boolean, Number

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, 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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Declarative query language (N1QL) that extends ANSI SQL to JSON. First commercial implementation of SQL++.

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

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 or Eventual Consistency

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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'

User concepts

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes

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

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Specific characteristics

Developed as an alternative to traditionally inflexible relational databases, Couchbase...
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Competitive advantages

Couchbase was architected with several differentiated capabilities: Shared-nothing,...
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Typical application scenarios

Customer 360 for user profile, session store and data aggregation (Comcast, Equifax,...
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Key customers

Amadeus, AT&T, BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), Carrefour, Cisco, Comcast, Disney,...
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Market metrics

Named a leader in the Forrester Wave™: Big Data NoSQL, Q1 2019 Over 10M downloads...
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Licensing and pricing models

The Community Edition (CE) of Couchbase Server and Couchbase Mobile are available...
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