DBMS > Couchbase vs. jBASE vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. jBASE vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk vs. Transwarp KunDB

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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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Analytics Platform for Big Data

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

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

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#344	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.splunk.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

help.sap.com/hana

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

SAP

Splunk Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

2011

1991

2010

2003

Current release

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

5.7

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based 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
Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

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
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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