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DBMS > HBase vs. Ingres vs. VoltDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Ingres vs. VoltDB vs. Yaacomo

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableWell established RDBMSDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memoryOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.voltdb.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetActian CorporationVoltDB Inc.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20081974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20102009
Current release2.3.4, January 202111.2, May 202211.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editionscommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJava, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99yes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavayesJava
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres ReplicatorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supportedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored proceduresACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyes infoData access is serialized by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and roles with access to stored proceduresfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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