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DBMS > HBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kdb vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kdb vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Trafodion

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBHigh performance Time Series DBMSA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#266  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantkx.comkyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisetrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantcode.kx.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcKyligence, Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release200820102000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320162014
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.6, May 20182.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangqJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (q)ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavaView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesyes infowith viewsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
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 possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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HBaseIBM CloudantKdbKyligence EnterpriseTrafodion
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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