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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Hypertable vs. MonetDB vs. RavenDB vs. Riak KV

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA relational database management system that stores data in columnsOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelWide column storeWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.monetdb.orgravendb.net
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationravendb.net/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHypertable Inc.MonetDB BVHibernating RhinosOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20082009200420102009
Current release2.3.4, January 20210.9.8.11, March 2016Dec2023 (11.49), December 20235.4, July 20223.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CC#Erlang
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyesnono
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.nono
Secondary indexesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language (RQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
C++ API
Thrift
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javanoyes, in SQL, C, RyesErlang
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding via remote tablesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor on file system levelnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseyes, using Riak Security

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