DBMS > HBase vs. ITTIA vs. JanusGraph vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. ITTIA vs. JanusGraph vs. Newts

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.ittia.com

janusgraph.org

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.janusgraph.org

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

ITTIA L.L.C.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2008

2007

2017

2014

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

8.7

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

Database file passwords

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Cloudera's HBase PaaS offering now supports Complex Transactions
11 August 2021, Krishna Maheshwari (sponsor)

Why is Hadoop not listed in the DB-Engines Ranking?
13 May 2013, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Less Components, Higher Performance: Apache Doris instead of ClickHouse, MySQL, Presto, and HBase
20 October 2023, hackernoon.com

Apache HBase – Apache HBase™ Home
18 July 2011, hbase.apache.org

What Is HBase?
19 August 2021, IBM

HBase: The database big data left behind
6 May 2016, InfoWorld

Monitor Apache HBase on Amazon EMR using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Amazon Managed ...
13 February 2023, AWS Blog

provided by Google News

ITTIA Embedded Time Series Database to Support STM32 Edge Devices
8 April 2022, Embedded Computing Design

Free Healthcare Data for Use with Maptitude 2019 Mapping Software - GIS user technology news
20 September 2019, GISuser.com

provided by Google News

Database Deep Dives: JanusGraph
8 August 2019, IBM

JanusGraph Picks Up Where TitanDB Left Off
13 January 2017, Datanami

From graph db to graph embedding. In 7 simple steps. | by Andy Greatorex
30 July 2020, Towards Data Science

Nordstrom Builds Flexible Backend Ops with Kubernetes, Spark and JanusGraph
3 October 2019, The New Stack

Compose for JanusGraph arrives on Bluemix
15 September 2017, IBM

provided by Google News

Share this page