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DBMS > HBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Ingres vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Ingres vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBWell established RDBMSPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.jaguardb.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Actian CorporationDataJaguar, Inc.Microsoft
Initial release200820101974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20152012
Current release2.3.4, January 202111.2, May 20223.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaErlangCC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavaView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesnono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres ReplicatorMulti-source replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
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 possibleACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMVCCyesyes
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.yesnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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