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Name

Description

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

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Wide column store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	22.12
Rank	#27	Overall
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#296	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#12	RDF stores

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2008

2017

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

6.0, Septermber 2022

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++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

RDF schemas

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

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

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

replication via a shared file system

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 in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

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

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

Roles, resources, and access types

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