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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PieCloudDB vs. Riak TS

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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

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

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Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

OpenPie

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2008

2010

2015

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.1, January 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

hosted

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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Specific characteristics

PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantages

Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Licensing and pricing models

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