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DBMS > HBase vs. Kingbase vs. LevelDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Kingbase vs. LevelDB vs. RDF4J

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.kingbase.com.cngithub.com/­google/­leveldbrdf4j.org
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.GoogleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2008199920112004
Current release2.3.4, January 2021V8.0, August 20211.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesnoyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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