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System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Widely used RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Document store

Wide column store

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 Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2011

2009

1980

2006

Current release

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

0.9.8.11, March 2016

23c, September 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

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

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

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

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

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, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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