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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Hypertable vs. OpenQM vs. Splunk

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Wide column store

Multivalue DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Hypertable Inc.

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2008

2009

1993

2003

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

0.9.8.11, March 2016

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

Multi-source 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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

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