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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. KairosDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument 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
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantkairosdb.github.iodocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Percona
Initial release2008201020132015
Current release2.3.4, January 20211.2.2, November 20183.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavaView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoJavaScript
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
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 possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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