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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. InfluxDB vs. MarkLogic vs. OpenTenBase vs. Quasardb

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTenBase  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseAn enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#370  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.marklogic.comgithub.com/­OpenTenBase/­OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org
quasar.ai
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.marklogic.comdocs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/­en
doc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMarkLogic Corp.OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencentquasardb
Initial release2008201320012009
Current release2.3.4, January 20212.7.6, April 202411.0, December 20222.5, January 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoBSD-3commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVRONumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL92yesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Go
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javanoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyesyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobswith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes, with Range Indexesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACsimple rights management via user accountsRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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HBaseInfluxDBMarkLogicOpenTenBaseQuasardb
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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