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DBMS > HBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Teradata Aster vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Teradata Aster vs. XTDB

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelWide column storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBMTeradataJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2008201720052019
Current release2.3.4, January 20212.01.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonoyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavayesR packagesno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-active shard replicationyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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