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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
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Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.ehcache.org

www.graphengine.io

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Microsoft

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2014

2009

2010

2016

Current release

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

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

.NET

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JCache

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

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

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

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