DBMS > HBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. RDFox vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. RDFox vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

Oxford Semantic Technologies

SAP

Initial release

2008

2010

2015

2017

2010

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

3.3 July 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
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

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

replication via a shared file system

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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 for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

Roles, resources, and access types

yes

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