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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. JaguarDB vs. OpenQM vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

rockset.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

DataJaguar, Inc.

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Rockset

Initial release

2008

2015

1993

2019

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

3.3 July 2023

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

dynamic typing

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.

yes

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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