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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Ingres vs. Interbase vs. Memcached vs. PostGIS

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableWell established RDBMSLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.memcached.orgpostgis.net
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikipostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetActian CorporationEmbarcaderoDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release20081974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s198420032005
Current release2.3.4, January 202111.2, May 2022InterBase 2020, December 20191.6.27, May 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCCCC
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesnoyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno infoexport as XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javayesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenouser defined functions
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres ReplicatorInterbase Change Viewsnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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