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DBMS > HBase vs. Heroic vs. Riak TS vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Heroic vs. Riak TS vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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 ElasticSearchRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productstinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSpotifyOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologiesinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20082014201520152009
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.0.0, September 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesnoyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchrestrictedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes, limitednono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavanoErlangyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factoryes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between datasets can be storednoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonomultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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