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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. HBase vs. IRONdb vs. Riak KV vs. TempoIQ

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.28
Rank	#119	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

drill.apache.org

hbase.apache.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Circonus LLC.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

2008

2017

2009

2012

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes, in Lua

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes, using Riak Security

simple authentication-based access control

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