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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. ITTIA vs. Microsoft Access vs. Quasardb vs. STSdb

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.39
Rank#273  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.ittia.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessquasar.aigithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetITTIA L.L.C.MicrosoftquasardbSTS Soft SC
Initial release20082007199220092011
Current release2.3.4, January 20218.71902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.14.1, January 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++C++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleFixed schemayesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javayesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)yesACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACDatabase file passwordsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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