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System Properties Comparison Apache HBase vs. Citus vs. NSDb

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NameApache HBase  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Trend Chart
Score25.00
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.01
Rank#117  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#392  Overall
#44  Time Series DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.citusdata.comnsdb.io
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.citusdata.comnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release200820102017
Current release2.3.4, January 20218.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaCJava, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.no
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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