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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Well established RDBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

dgraph.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

dgraph.io/docs

docs.actian.com/ingres

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Actian Corporation

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2014

2016

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication via Raft

Ingres Replicator

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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 (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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