DBMS > Couchbase vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. ObjectBox vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. ObjectBox vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Well established RDBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

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

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

objectbox.io

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.objectbox.io

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Actian Corporation

ObjectBox Limited

SiteWhere

Initial release

2011

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2017

2010

Current release

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

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

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

gRPC (https)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Ingres Replicator

online/offline synchronization between client and server

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

MVCC

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

User concepts

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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