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DBMS > HBase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Postgres-XL

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA multi-model DBMS and application serverA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.intersystems.comwww.lmdb.tech/­docwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetInterSystemsSymasMicrosoft
Initial release20081997201120122014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release2.3.4, January 20212018.1.4, May 20200.9.32, January 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaCC
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibledepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeyes
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.noyesnonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javayesnonouser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnoneyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACIDoptimistic lockingACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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