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DBMS > HBase vs. Heroic vs. Hive vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Heroic vs. Hive vs. LokiJS

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitehbase.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroichive.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroiccwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Hometechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSpotifyApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release2008201420122014
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesno
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 indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javanoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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