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DBMS > HBase vs. Ignite vs. Ingres vs. Interbase vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Ignite vs. Ingres vs. Interbase vs. SiteWhere

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Well established RDBMSLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgignite.apache.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasesitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetApache Software FoundationActian CorporationEmbarcaderoSiteWhere
Initial release200820151974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s19842010
Current release2.3.4, January 2021Apache Ignite 2.611.2, May 2022InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, Java, .NetCCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyespredefined scheme
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.noyesno infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes (replicated cache)Ingres ReplicatorInterbase Change Viewsselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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