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DBMS > HBase vs. Kingbase vs. OpenQM vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Kingbase vs. OpenQM vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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.QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value 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
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.kingbase.com.cnwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Rocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release20081999199320142011
Current release2.3.4, January 2021V8.0, August 20213.4-123.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaScalaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes infowith some exceptionsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functionsyesnono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningyesyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyesnonenone
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 integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnono

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