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System Properties Comparison Apache HBase vs. Galaxybase

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Primary database model

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

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Score	24.75
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

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Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

galaxybase.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Initial release

2008

2017

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

Nov 20, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

Strong typed schema

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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Go
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined procedures and functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Role-based access control

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