DBMS > Couchbase vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP IQ vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP IQ vs. VelocityDB

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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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Graph DBMS
Object oriented 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	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

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

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

origodb.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

SAP, formerly Sybase

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2011

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

1994

2011

Current release

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

4.4, October 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

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

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Domain Events

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

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

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

yes

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.

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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