DBMS > HBase vs. Interbase vs. Redis

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Interbase vs. Redis

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS info

originally from Borland

In-memory data structure store, used as database, cache and message broker info

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store info

Multiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence

Secondary database models

Document store info

with Redis Modules
Graph DBMS info

with Redis Modules
Search engine info

with Redis Modules
Time Series DBMS info

with Redis Modules

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Score	50.15
Rank	#22	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	6.46
Rank	#53	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	144.81
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

redis.io

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

redis.io/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation info

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Embarcadero

Salvatore Sanfilippo info

Development sponsored by Redis Labs

Initial release

2008

1984

2009

Current release

2.2.0, June 2019

InterBase 2017, March 2017

5.0.8, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source info

BSD 3-Clause, commercial license available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows info

using Cygwin

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows info

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

XML support info

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

Secondary indexes

yes

with RediSearch module

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol info

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

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

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Master-master replication
Master-slave replication

Interbase Change Views

Master-slave replication info

Chained replication is supported
Multi-master replication info

with Redis Enterprise Pack

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

User concepts info

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Simple password-based access control info

Access control lists and SSL are available in the commercial version

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