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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. ObjectBox vs. SQLite vs. Transbase

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantobjectbox.iowww.sqlite.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.objectbox.iowww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014ObjectBox LimitedDwayne Richard HippTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20082010201720001987
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoPublic Domaincommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC and C++CC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-lessFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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 indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary native APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavaView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
online/offline synchronization between client and servernoneSource-replica replication
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
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 possibleACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
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.yesnonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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