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System Properties Comparison Apache HBase vs. Dolt

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Name

Description

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

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	22.62
Rank	#27	Overall
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#232	Overall
	#106	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.dolthub.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

DoltHub Inc

Initial release

2008

2018

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

CLI Client
HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

currently in alpha release

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

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