DBMS > Couchbase vs. HyperSQL vs. Newts vs. SAP IQ vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. HyperSQL vs. Newts vs. SAP IQ vs. Tigris

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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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

column-oriented

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series 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

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Trend Chart

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#363	Overall
	#49	Document stores
	#54	Key-value stores
	#22	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

hsqldb.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

OpenNMS Group

SAP, formerly Sybase

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2011

2001

2014

1994

2022

Current release

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

2.7.2, June 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

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
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

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 REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

yes, using FoundationDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

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