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DBMS > HBase vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Interbase vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Interbase vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableCloud-based data warehousing serviceLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseterminusdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBMEmbarcaderoDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20082014198420182011
Current release2.3.4, January 2021InterBase 2020, December 201911.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaCProlog, RustC#
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyesyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavaPL/SQL, SQL PLyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesno
TriggersyesyesyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesInterbase Change ViewsJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
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-standardRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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