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DBMS > Couchbase vs. IBM Db2 vs. Newts vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. IBM Db2 vs. Newts vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQL.JS

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NameCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxTime Series DBMS based on CassandraThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store infooriginating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Spatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score16.74
Rank#33  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score123.05
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score32.67
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#246  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.couchbase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2opennms.github.io/­newtswww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.couchbase.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2github.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikihelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperCouchbase, Inc.IBMOpenNMS GroupSAP, SybaseAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20111983 infohost version201419872012
Current releaseServer: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 202312.1, October 201616.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availablecommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, Go and ErlangC and C++JavaC and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesyesnoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
HTTP REST
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
JavaC
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++yesnoJava and Transact-SQLno
Triggersyes infovia the TAP protocolyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic ShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
yes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoEphemeral bucketsnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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