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Name

Description

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

hive.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2014

2012

1984

2008

Current release

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

3.1.3, April 2022

7.9.10.12, February 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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