DBMS > Couchbase vs. Hive vs. Ignite vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Hive vs. Ignite vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

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.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Apache Software Foundation

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Microsoft

Initial release

2011

2012

2015

1984

2015

Current release

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

3.1.3, April 2022

Apache Ignite 2.6

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

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

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

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.

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

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