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System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. HBase vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. STSdb

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value storeWide column storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.firebolt.iohbase.apache.orgboilerbay.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iohbase.apache.org/­book.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetBoiler Bay Inc.MicrosoftSTS Soft SC
Initial release20202008200220122011
Current release2.3.4, January 20214.04.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
All OS with a Java VMhostedWindows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsoptimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesno

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