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Name

Description

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Wide column store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	22.12
Rank	#27	Overall
	#3	Wide column stores

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Rank	#382	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2008

2011

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

7.x

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

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Any that supports .NET

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

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

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

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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