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System Properties Comparison Apache HBase vs. Kuzu

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Name

Description

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

An embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalability

Primary database model

Wide column store

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Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#350	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

kuzudb.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.kuzudb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Initial release

2008

2022

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

0.4.2, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

server-less

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

CLI Client
Cypher Query Language

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

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

none

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

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)

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

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