DBMS > Couchbase vs. HyperSQL vs. Kdb vs. Manticore Search vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. HyperSQL vs. Kdb vs. Manticore Search vs. PouchDB

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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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

High performance Time Series DBMS

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Document store

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

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

code.kx.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Manticore Software

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2011

2001

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2017

2012

Current release

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

2.7.2, June 2023

3.6, May 2018

6.0, February 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like query language

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

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Java, SQL

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

similar paradigm used for internal processing

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

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