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DBMS > HBase vs. Ingres vs. RethinkDB vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Ingres vs. RethinkDB vs. Sequoiadb

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableWell established RDBMSDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresrethinkdb.comwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingresrethinkdb.com/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetActian CorporationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20081974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20092013
Current release2.3.4, January 202111.2, May 20222.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 availablenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavayesJavaScript
TriggersyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDAtomic single-document operationsDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionssimple password-based access control

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