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DBMS > etcd vs. Graphite vs. HBase vs. Heroic vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. Graphite vs. HBase vs. Heroic vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
github.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
graphite.readthedocs.iohbase.apache.org/­book.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperChris DavisApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSpotifyTranswarp
Initial release200620082014
Current release3.4, August 20192.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoPythonJavaJava
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linux
Unix
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnononoyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
HTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
OpenCypher
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersyes, watching key changesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyes

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