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System Properties Comparison Apache HBase vs. NSDb vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	25.00
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#392	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.49
Rank	#105	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

nsdb.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

nsdb.io/Architecture

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2008

2017

1994

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

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
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
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: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

Using Apache Lucene

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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