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System Properties Comparison Apache HBase vs. NSDb vs. TDengine

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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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	22.62
Rank	#27	Overall
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#132	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

nsdb.io

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2008

2017

2019

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

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

Linux
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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

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

yes

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

Eventual 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)

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

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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