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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP HANA vs. TDengine

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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

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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

help.sap.com/hana

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

SAP

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2008

2010

2019

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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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

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

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

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

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

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

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

yes

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