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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Kingbase vs. OrigoDB vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.kingbase.com.cn

origodb.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

origodb.com/docs

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Robert Friberg et al

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2008

1999

2009

under the name LiveDB

2016

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

.Net

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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