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DBMS > HBase vs. Kinetica vs. NSDb vs. TimesTen vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Kinetica vs. NSDb vs. TimesTen vs. YottaDB

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comnsdb.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlyottadb.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.kinetica.comnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1yottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetKineticaOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005YottaDB, LLC
Initial release20082012201719982001
Current release2.3.4, January 20217.1, August 202111 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++Java, ScalaC
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxLinux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyesby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functionsnoPL/SQL
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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