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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitehbase.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
spark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.heavy.aispark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHEAVY.AI, Inc.Apache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release2008201620142011
Current release2.3.4, January 20215.10, January 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDAScalaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes 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 indexesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javanonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonono
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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