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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. KairosDB vs. Riak TS vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.71
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

siridb.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

kairosdb.github.io

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Cesbit

Initial release

2008

2013

2015

2017

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

1.2.2, November 2018

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

Numeric data

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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

simple password-based access control

simple rights management via user accounts

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