DBMS > HBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RocksDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RocksDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

rocksdb.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.heavy.ai

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2008

2016

2007

2013

1998

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

5.10, January 2022

14.1, August 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

configurable

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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