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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Ingres vs. NSDb vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

Well established RDBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	4.67
Rank	#77	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

nsdb.io

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.actian.com/ingres

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Actian Corporation

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2008

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2017

2006

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

11.2, May 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Ingres Replicator

none

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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