DBMS > Couchbase vs. HugeGraph vs. Interbase vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. HugeGraph vs. Interbase vs. SAP HANA

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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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store

Graph 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

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Baidu

Embarcadero

SAP

Initial release

2011

2018

1984

2010

Current release

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

0.9

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Interbase Change Views

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via hugegraph-spark

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

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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.

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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