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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. HBase vs. InfluxDB vs. OpenSearch

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

FatCloud

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2012

2008

2013

2021

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.7.6, April 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

Numeric data and Strings

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

simple rights management via user accounts

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