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System Properties Comparison Apache HBase vs. Memgraph vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	25.00
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	2.71
Rank	#97	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#392	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

memgraph.com

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

memgraph.com/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

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Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Memgraph Ltd

Initial release

2008

2017

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free and schema-optional

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.

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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