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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfinityDB vs. Newts vs. Quasardb

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceTime Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantboilerbay.comopennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.ai
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Boiler Bay Inc.OpenNMS Groupquasardb
Initial release20082010200220142009
Current release2.3.4, January 20214.03.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaJava.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavaView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenonoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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