DBMS > HBase vs. InfluxDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SingleStore vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. InfluxDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SingleStore vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.postgres-xl.org

www.singlestore.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.singlestore.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

SingleStore Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2008

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2013

2014

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.7.6, April 2024

10 R1, October 2018

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
macOS

Linux

64 bit version required

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

Numeric data and Strings

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

hash partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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