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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. KeyDB vs. Quasardb

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
quasar.ai
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.keydb.devdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetInterSystemsEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.quasardb
Initial release2008201820192009
Current release2.3.4, January 20212023.3, June 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSD-3commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibledepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyes infointeger and binary
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavayesLuano
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyessimple password-based access control and ACLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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