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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Interbase vs. MariaDB vs. Memcached vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.memcached.org

postgis.net

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Embarcadero

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2008

1984

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2003

2005

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

11.3.2, February 2024

1.6.27, May 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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