DBMS > HBase vs. Immudb vs. InfinityDB vs. PostGIS vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Immudb vs. InfinityDB vs. PostGIS vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

boilerbay.com

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.immudb.io

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

postgis.net/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Codenotary

Boiler Bay Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2008

2020

2002

2005

2010

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

1.2.3, April 2022

4.0

3.4.2, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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