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System Properties Comparison Apache HBase vs. EDB Postgres vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

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

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	25.00
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1.70
Rank	#136	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#392	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.enterprisedb.com

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

EnterpriseDB

Initial release

2008

2005

2017

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

14, December 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

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

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

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

Immediate Consistency

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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